| ▲ | DonHopkins 5 hours ago | |
Did you ever have one of those days when React doesn't, variables don't, and constants aren't? For how unoriginal, unreactive, and mind-numbingly iterative over virtual DOM React is, it should be named Repeat. "Things seem to hang on in computing just because they work a little bit." -Alan Kay https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841428 Alan Kay also said this about his famous "Point of View is worth 80 IQ points" aphorism, which I think poignantly explains why React costs a net of 160 IQ points compared to Svelte: >I have been keeping to "80" IQ points in the saying (thus avoiding inflation). However very few people have noticed there is no sign bit in the aphorism, and that it works just as well for "poor perspectives being worth negative 80 IQ points" (and I think we could claim inflation of stupidity in many bad directions these days ...). Rich Harris: Rethinking Reactivity: https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity >There are some important technical differences (as I explain in the video above, React is not reactive) but conceptually it’s the same thing. | ||