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by masklinn 1566 days ago
That is an utterly bizarre rejoinder. JSX has always been (and afaik still is) optional and extremely thin syntactic sugar. It’s little more than a convenience macro (so that views can look a little more like the markup equivalent).

It has no intrinsic semantics, and maps pretty much directly to actual javascript (which you can write directly or use an alternative helper for — hyperscript being a common one).