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by adamnemecek 4045 days ago
React is a library, Ember is a framework.
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ubercore 4045 days ago
I think maybe the parent comment is wondering "Why Glimmer and not React for the rendering library?"
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wycats 4045 days ago
We talk about this a bunch in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwIyenCaSXk

The TLDR is:

* We like templates, and were able to implement a more efficient algorithm using them (even more than the recent improvements in Babel).

* Compatibility is important to us, so HTMLBars was going to be a much better transition story for Ember 1.x than JSX.

* We prefer an HTML-centric templating story (copy/paste valid HTML and it works) over an XML strategy that requires camelCasing, className/htmlFor, etc.

* We optimized Glimmer for a hybrid (rerender + subscriptions to the model or service layer) model that can opportunistically avoid work based on knowledge we have from the whole stack.

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mrcwinn 4045 days ago
Fair enough, but I would argue JSX is just as "HTML-centric" as anything Ember has implemented, so long as we agree "HTML-centric" means, practically speaking, "not HTML."
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wycats 4045 days ago
What I mean specifically is that if you copy and paste some valid HTML from inside a body tag, it will work.

That is an explicit non-goal of JSX, and it shows.

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seivan 4045 days ago
The Youtube video just says "Please stand by.".
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wycats 4045 days ago
Whoops: https://youtu.be/msS-3zqKKUI?t=51m5s
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