[austin-cheney]

Why is that a bad argument? The author strongly dislikes React and so wrote an alternative that is radically more simple, which sounds like a perfectly sane argument.

[bestest]

Does the author dislike react? How about preact? Or maybe simply jsx? Or nextjs?

There's nothing wrong with either of these if used correctly. Thus "hate" is a rather shallow argument.

[tobr]

Your argument that it’s a shallow argument is itself a shallow argument. ”I hate x” is not a technical argument anyway, it’s an emotional assessment.

[mexicocitinluez]

But they're shilling a technical solution not an emotional one.

[usrbinenv]

As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational beings, emotions are still a very large part of our decision making process. I didn't build Qite because I hate React, I built it because I knew exactly how I wanted things to work. But I do hate React and it's part of why I knew exactly how I wanted things to work.

[mexicocitinluez]

> As much as we like to think of ourselves as rational beings, emotions are still a very large part of our decision making process

And yet, plenty of people all around the world are able to get traction for their products without mentioning the hate of another.

> I didn't build Qite because I hate React,

I get that React being the most popular front-end framework means it's going to get it's fair share of criticism, but it's become pathetic the degree to which people have made hating it their personality. Even going so far as to market their own frameworks in terms of their personal feelings towards it.

Nobody is saying humans aren't emotional, you're trying to deflect from being unable to disconnect your emotions from another library.

It's React Derangement Syndrome.

[austin-cheney]

I dislike React because it’s large, slow, and completely unnecessary. If I can write a spa that both 10x faster and 10x smaller without it then why would I bother with React? That isn’t any kind of syndrome. It’s me not wasting my time on vanity bullshit.

I really think autism has a lot to do with the necessity of large frameworks. They provide a vanity layer to hide behind for people who cannot introspect and cannot measure.

[johnisgood]

"hate" is not even an argument. It is obviously for those who dislike React or put it in another way: do not like to or would rather not work with React.

[austin-cheney]

I will safely assume the author dislikes all that overly complex bloat bullshit and leave it at that. I am not going to autism this, as in invent a bunch of straw men to attack because there is some singular obsession silo of react-like fixations.

[imtringued]

Calling preact bloated is pretty bold.