Because people make shitty React apps and people think React is slow because of it.

It's definitely not slow here. It's within 20% of Svelte. That's not nothing, but it's not the huge monster people claim it is

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2025/table...

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epolanski an hour ago | parent [-]

When 99% of React apps (websites tbh, with very few needs for complex reactivity...) including those built by multi billion/trillion $ companies, struggle to produce non-bloated, non-slow, accessible websites, you know that the library is simply too complex to tame.

Of course React can be performant, but still, you're getting a PhD in its internals and hooks to get what you have in vue/nuxt/svelte whatever out of the box.

	▲	littlecranky67 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It does not matter what framework you chose, if you carelessly throw money at something it is not guaranteed to be good or fast. A framework doesn't replace company culture. Plus, in my experience, PhDs do not make good developers - they often fall into the trap of thinking too abstract vs. being pragmatic.