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by kentor 3492 days ago
It's literally as complex as transpiling ES6 to ES5.

And although JSX is not in the ECMA-262 spec, it does have a spec, so there's that.
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Touche 3492 days ago
Transpiling is complexity. You don't have to transpile if you just use web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
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kentor 3492 days ago
Of course it is, but saying it's "a ton of complexity" to use JSX, while not saying the same for transpiling current and future ECMA-262 syntax into what browsers support right now is disingenuous.
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Touche 3492 days ago
No it's not, transpiling future ECMA-262 is not within the scope of this discussion. We are compared browser-native language features JS (non transpiled), HTML, CSS, to non-native features, namely JSX.
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