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by benatkin 970 days ago
What I mean is that what’s old has been new again for at least 9 years (React), but it’s also been looking quite similar for at least 3 years (SwiftUI and Flutter).
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The biggest difference being in React, the render cycle is a synchronous, blocking function call, but attempting to access any remote data is purely asynchronous.

There's no way to repeat the horror of calling MySQL from a PHP template or whatever you might be able to do here.

It's still possible to write bad code, of course, but the old justification don't quite apply to react like they might here, or elsewhere.