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John Peters

Saying react doesn’t do anything better than v8 makes no sense at all.

Let me try to understand this: We have a V8 engine, Fined tuned to the max, and but we know that there are better things React does, merely by using the V8 Api's differently in some fashion? I don't believe that, what I believe though is that React wanted and did create it's own opinionated way of doing things. It covered the V8 Api to it's adopters to implement it's architecture. One of them being Custom Elements ala React way.

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Matthew Pardini

I don’t think you have a very good understanding of how a browser works. You brought up “closer to metal” which is a term for servers that are not containerized or partitioned.

You are right about ecma standards sun setting some features of libraries and frameworks, which is what happened to ember with their ember object.

But that’s not comparable to react as react doesn’t provide features you’d ever want in a browser engine. State management and/or integration with state management. Build tool chains. DOM updating. These are all things that will never be a part of javascript as a language because they aren’t language problems. They are problems that happen when you start building complexity.

This conversation is over from my side. Good day!

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John Peters

I don’t think you have a very good understanding of how a browser works.

I think this statement is ridiculous.

State management and/or integration with state management

Browsers manage their own state perfectly, in particular DOM updating. As far a build tools there are many other options unrelated to React.

This conversation is over from my side.

Ok.

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