[feedjoelpie]

The big advantage of JSX to my company is that our design team, which does design in the browser, has a much shorter leap to understanding it than plain JavaScript. These suggestions of "JSX sucks, you can express this in plain JS" always leave people with those skill sets behind. Sure it would be really awesome if the designers were also serious JS programmers, but that's not why we hired them, and with JSX they don't need to be.

[nine_k]

I honestly do not see how much effort would it take to get from <foo bar="baz">Quux</foo> syntax to ["foo", {bar: "baz"}, "Quux"] syntax. I believe someone already working with code (HTML, CSS) should be perfectly capable to learn this transformation in well under 15 minutes.