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		MikeOfAu on July 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Are Killing It My take: Facebook are killing it because they are pursuing functional, reactive, declarative designs. The next step on is to consider using a LANGUAGE that naturally supports this paradigm: Clojurescript or Elm are the obvious choices. This dreamy utopian future https://speakerdeck.com/chantastic/inline-styles-react-europ... … already exists in both ClojureScript and Elm!! For example, the Reagent library in ClojureScrpt. Is insane popularity imminent? Shameless plug for an MVC layer: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame

fsk on July 4, 2015 [–]

I thought Facebook is killing it because they have a large lock-in network effect for their users. You have to be on Facebook if all your friends are on Facebook.

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