Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts126/v4/70/24/f7/7024f7d1-112b-1231-4f3d-0da583e2003b/mza_2953134540493826996.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source

Meta Open Source Team

18 episodes

4 days ago

Hosted by Joel Marcey, a staff developer advocate on the Meta Open Source team, The Diff showcases the program, the projects and the people that drives the team's mission of building community through open source technology.

Technology

RSS

All content for The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source is the property of Meta Open Source Team and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Technology

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_episode/1464800/1464800-1638826578268-b801ba5ce21c5.jpg

Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

The Diff: A Podcast from Meta Open Source

44 minutes 4 seconds

6 years ago

Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

On this episode of The Diff, Joel talks to Jordan, the creator of React, our most popular open source project, and the creator of Reason, a programming language cousin of JavaScript based on OCaml. Learn about why React was born, the need for another programming language, and how both of these projects have impacted development both inside and outside of Facebook. Also Joel finds out the real name of Reason's package manager.