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Baldur Bjarnason Oct 9, 2024

Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/liskovs-gun/

This is a bit of an experiment. Probably the longest essay I've published directly on my website. 🙂

Liskov's Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Nolan Lawson Oct 9, 2024

@baldur Fantastic post. My only minor quibble is that I do think the React team has kept innovating – concurrent rendering and RSCs come to mind. Although I'm not convinced the first is a great idea (https://nolanlawson.com/2022/10/22/style-performance-and-concurrent-rendering/) and the second seems to be heavily dividing the React community, I have to give them credit for having the guts to try new stuff even though they're the clear market leader.

Style performance and concurrent rendering

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Baldur Bjarnason

@nolan Thanks! And, yeah, I'm definitely not giving React much credit or even the benefit of doubt.

Though, I think it's fair to say that the jury is still out on a lot of their innovations and that they don't really make up for the overall harm that comes from React's popularity

And if they do come up with something genuinely novel and reusable, people can always steal the idea 🙂