[boubiyeah]

Word. Such a stupid comparison.

You can add JIT too :) More JS, more time needed to reach decent runtime speed post JIT. React's first render is very slow.

[joncampbelldev]

A one-off event for a single-page-app which is likely to be used for more than a few minutes, and if performance of old mobile users matters then a native app is necessary, period.

If you're talking about a webpage then yes that would be awful.