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by inductive_magic 1367 days ago
>I'm not sure what's the point of React here nor "Saving React". Why it needs to be saved in which sense.

I read it as “svelte et al gain traction due to inferior younglings, therefore react is a sinking ship, let’s not let it sink because the tooling I use is the adequate choice (despite having to be saved)”

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Yeah. The first paragraph is that point, but the follow up paragraphs are more of general sense of building UI.

The other frameworks or libs lately move towards non virtual dom and reactivity. Solid, Preact, Svelte, Vue, Lit are superior engineering wise. But React is about the whole economy (unbelievable VCs put 100+ millions on that), so more libs more stuff created, rich ecosystem, poor engineering.