Lifting & Shifting Entire React Ecosystem into New Languages

Explore a 33-minute conference talk from React Native EU 2023 that delves into the process of lifting and shifting the React ecosystem into new languages. Learn how to prove out new languages, type systems, and virtual machine implementations while accelerating maturity and adoption. Discover insights on transferring nearly 500,000 lines of code from React, Jest, and GraphQL into a new language, VM, and type system. Understand how this process rapidly accelerated maturity and revealed latent issues in React and TypeScript. Benefit from the speaker's extensive programming experience dating back to 1984 and his work with React since 2013. Gain valuable knowledge about language development, ecosystem migration, and the challenges faced in evolving programming languages and frameworks.

Lifting & Shifting Entire React Ecosystem into New Languages - Matt Hargett | React Native EU 2023