[chrislloyd]

The biggest shift in my mental model of React was considering it closer to a programming language than traditional UI libraries. Dan hints at this when describing how it is used to manipulate view trees and proposing special syntax for hooks.

[bcherny]

Context for where that syntax came from: http://displayscript.org/language-reference-state-and-identi...

[danabramov]

Yep, also a few other references are here

https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#what-is-the-prior-ar...