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Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

Update: 2019-03-11

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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.

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Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

Episode 3: The Birth of React and Reason

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