"On 28 September 2017, the Drupal Association held its third open board meeting of the year where community members listened in via Zoom and in person."
Dries Buytaert announced that Drupal is moving towards using React in the admin interface of Drupal core. This is following Facebook's change from the BSD + Patents license to a MIT license. The idea is to start with components in the admin being moved to React in a phased approach.