[Spivak]

And then Svelte showed that you could avoid all that with a compilation step and live update the dom efficiently.

https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead

React is also at the point where re-rendering the whole app is a fiction the library maintains for you while being smarter and doing less, why not go the whole way?

[Aeolun]

And then SolidJS showed that you could do the same thing even without a compilation step.

[ibash]

Agree, react is way too bloated right now. The original idea and first versions were great.

[culi]

The original idea and first versions were extremely inefficient and unscalable