[localvoid]

>They probably are faster than vanilla code that you'd be able to write on your own, but that says more about your abilities than the performance of frameworks.

I won't be able to write efficient vanilla code for something even slightly more complicated than this benchmark, and I wrote one of the fastest virtual dom implementations out there, so what you expect from an average web developer?

[daliwali]

I'm not saying, "don't use an abstraction on top of vanilla DOM code".

Better performance just isn't a valid reason to use a DOM abstraction, it's a non-argument.

[harel]

Performance was never the only reason. In fact its the last reason on the list. Development speed and efficiency and the modularity of it all is what sold me on React.