[AlexC04]

Totally fair question.

I think the reason I want to try react is to compare and contrast the various approaches.

I've written both angular & mithril for production. So far I haven't enjoyed anything as much as mithril. It is so clean & pure. It stays almost completely out of your way.

In fact there are places where I'm actually running angular INSIDE mithril pages (long story, part of migrating a project from angular to mithril, without losing legacy pages)

I would like to start a react project from scratch to see what it's like. To compare what one really, really smart guy (Leo) came up with against the mighty multibillion dollar facebook.

Leo has a day job and mithril is spare-time, facebook has a staff dedicated to react. Facebook is committed to working on react long term as a corporate strategy. Leo could get bored and walk away.

Additionally there's the aspect of looking at react-native. It makes me suspect that there may be a long term value in being aware of the patterns used in the react.

I struggle to believe it could be better than mithril, but who knows? I haven't tried it yet!

Finally there's the "learning things is fun" side of things.

[lhorie]

FYI, Mithril is largely a scratch-my-own-itch kind of project project and I use it heavily at work, so I'm definitely not going to walk away from it :)

[AlexC04]

Of course!

But what if you're in a Starbucks, and the person behind you is the head of BMA Model's hands and feet division? (http://www.bmamodels.com/hands_legs_feet). As you reach for your frappachino you're "discovered" as the next-big-thing. About to explode into the glamorous, yet high stakes world of hand-modelling. It's a multi million dollar deal... but with the stipulation... no more coding effective immediately.

What happens to mithril then Leo? What then?

If it happened at facebook they'd give the job to Jimmy "Stubby Fingers" Malone and move on.

Obviously I'm teasing (hopefully at least).

I think there are actually a lot of advantages to your running mithril lean & (mostly) solo.

I've been impressed by seeing the contributors in github https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/issues and the quality of the discussions in the google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mithriljs ... to say nothing of how great your blog posts are.

You contribute and participate in all those places and even turn up on HN.

It does make it a consideration when selecting a direction for a project though. It's a bit of a risk awareness/tolerance thing. I still think C# is way better than node.js for some things too :)