Alex RussellSo it seems like the BBC is making the Next/React mistake?
*sigh*
Daniel Rotter@slightlyoff That's totally unrelated to BBC, but I am still curious: Don't you think that React has introduced some great ideas? I e.g. like JSX (does not necessarily mean that it has to use VDOM, right?).
But don't get me wrong, nowadays I also wouldn't choose it when building something from scratch 🙈 It feels to me like they are fixing problems today that you would not have if you would not be using React in the first place.
@danrot No? No.
@slightlyoff I think I've read another tweet of yours saying that you like qwik, which also seems to use JSX, but I guess you don't like it for that reason then 😅
@danrot I was being glib for comic effect.
React popularising reactive programming[1] has been valuable. Has the specific form it promigulated been worth the cost? No; this specific juice was not worth an industry-wide squeeze, although it's unsurprising from that perspective that others have improved on it massively.
[1]: they claim "functional reactive", but in practice it's only reactive