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by kccqzy 48 days ago
> Static things look static, dynamic things are obviously so, and it felt much less magic than regular React.

Yes! The moment for me was when React introduced their notorious useEffect/useState hooks API. It immediately jumped out to me as the wrong API, by making static things dynamic. Reagent was really a breath of fresh air. Reagent was a really nice API, though it somewhat encouraged inefficient code.