[resoluteteeth]

> Broadly speaking I think React is in a weird spot where they have painted themselves into a corner with no obvious way of fixing it by essentially forking the DOM and doing so many things independently of the wider web platform. That approach made a lot of sense when it was first released but is just a liability at this point.

The problems that strict mode is addressing with this somewhat unusual approach have absolutely nothing to do with the VDOM. Rather it is that code using React is subject to restrictions (being pure functions and following the hook rules when using hooks) that are impossible to express or enforce at compile time in javascript.

[mhoad]

Sorry just to be clear, I wasn’t tying this to the strict mode situation but was attaching myself to the concept that this is just one of several points where the framework is showing some signs that it’s time to start thinking about alternatives particularly because I don’t think some of them are fixable at this point, they are just too central to the entire project and those decisions no longer make sense.