> The Skip project concluded in 2018 and Skip is no longer under active development at Facebook.
This makes it sound like the project was killed off entirely, as it mentions its 'concluded'.
Converting a multi-million-line codebase takes many years, and in practice, it turned out that huge swaths of the code would need to be converted before any wins were had. (To fully leverage reactivity, all your dependencies also need to be reactive.) Our codebase is intertwined and doesn't have many self-contained parts that could be fully converted in isolation so this wasn't possible.
Essentially, Skip is still very promising as a language for new projects but it feels like Facebook management couldn't justify staffing a permanent team given that we don't have a path to move huge chunks of development to it except in projects being developed more from scratch, which we tend to have few of.
I wouldn't see any of this as an indictment of Skip's potential generally.