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Rauch: JavaScript and React are the universal lingua franca for web AI
“JavaScript is almost, in my mind has always been almost like the English of programming languages. It's a language that if you learn it, you reach billions of devices. So it's not a coincidence that when you ask ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini to build you a we…”
Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products
“For us, and the opportunity was if there is maybe five million React developers, which is the sort of the library engine that we use, and there's maybe twenty million JavaScript developers, how many product builders or people with aspirations of building produ…”
Mullenweg: WordPress community forced Meta to reverse restrictive React licensing
“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”
Zhao: Notion rebuilt its codebase because Google Web Components proved too unstable
“Before react wins, there's a competing technology called web component from Google. And it makes sense. Web component feels like a Lego like the building block like, and we're betting on that technology. And then we realized, because it's so new, it's just so …”