[danabramov]

Same newcomer, in a couple of weeks: "Don't know how I lived without it".

I understand your point, but in practice people love tiny affordances like this, especially when they are needed as often as fragments are.

This is a balance, but it's important to consider the needs of power users too. Beginners don't stay beginners forever. We've thought about this for a few months, and decided that adding syntax would be better. I understand some people will always disagree though, and that's fine :-)

[electric_sheep]

Yeah, it seems like the decision to make the fragment a first-class JSX concept has a lot to do with portability between renderers. The post makes it clear you all have given this a lot of thought and care, and I appreciate that (even if it will take me awhile to get used to seeing empty tags, haha).