[AlchemistCamp]

React code is basically the opposite of nice. Bad language and horrible ecosystem :D

Seriously, I first tried it in 2013, used it for work from 2014-2016 and here and there for odd projects later, and the amount of churn and complexity of the ecosystem has been surprising every time I check back on it.

My Obj-C from even longer ago pretty much all runs fine and is fairly understandable even for most iOS devs who started after Swift was the default.

[hu3]

Agreed. And React Components was the final nail in the coffin for me.

Tainting what used to be a lean frontend library with server side concepts [1] was a net negative in my opinion.

[1] https://react.dev/reference/react/use-server

[wruza]

Chiming in to not let you feel alone in this. React feels like you're doing low-level assembly in an esoteric functional language that ought to be simulated in javascript, but due to limitations of the latter you have to simulate it by hand, by following the manual. Looks absolutely delusional to everyone who catched peak ui phases like Cocoa and UIKit. I remember writing custom components in Obj-C and never thinking about all the nonexistent issues which React claims to be a perfect solution for every few years.