[pavlov]

Personally I appreciate the ideas behind hooks, but the implementation feels like I’m trying to write in a different language behind JavaScript that has its own rules about scope, flow control, variable dependencies, and many other things that run counter to what appears to be happening on the JavaScript surface.

I’ve worked on many projects that implemented object-oriented programming in C, and the impedance mismatch there was much more tolerable. That should be a warning signal that something is amiss with hooks in JS.

They made an embedded language extension for JSX. Why not a similar separate language for hooks, to clearly delineate when you’re working with the React state machine rather than ordinary JS state?