[edem]

Then you end up rewriting a buggy under-performing version of React. No, thanks. If size is really a concern use Preact.

[mattgreenrocks]

The beautiful thing about React is not React itself, but rather how much it pushed functional idioms into mainstream programming.

We can do better from here, mostly by hewing more to the functional core/imperative shell idea. Redux is a popular approach that shows the power of this. In more modern languages with ADTs you don’t even need a library/framework once you fully understand how to structure things well.

[pjmlp]

And me thinking .NET did it first with Rx.

[mattgreenrocks]

Rx never got the attention it deserved IMO. It was the right thing but never really had the ergonomics.

It’s entirely possible I wasn’t able to appreciate it at the time, too.

[pjmlp]

It is part of Angular and everywhere on Android and iOS, it is plenty of attention.