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It's a thought-provoking article, but I would also like to see something about React in it. It seems to me that React is a very pragmatic way to get around the global complexity-driven performance issues with DOM manipulation.

When we're coding, we're optimizing for a couple of different things, really. First is real-world performance (represented by slowpoke DOM manipulation). Second is programmer performance (represented by inappropriate abstractions). A lot of things we can do in Javascript to make programming less difficult and complex result in poor real-world performance, and vice versa.

But what do I know? I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a Javascript expert.