Been at web app dev for 25 years here... I actually loved JSX from the start, I did some similar work with e4x, but it was only ever supported in Mozilla browsers, and even then JSX is much better.
It was literally the culmination of everything I'd wanted in a UI framework for JS/HTML. XAML was close-ish, similar for Adobe Flex.. but targetting the browser directly was the real game changer... was already doing babel (6to5?) translations, so it was a natural progression.
Been at web app dev for 25 years here... I actually loved JSX from the start, I did some similar work with e4x, but it was only ever supported in Mozilla browsers, and even then JSX is much better.
It was literally the culmination of everything I'd wanted in a UI framework for JS/HTML. XAML was close-ish, similar for Adobe Flex.. but targetting the browser directly was the real game changer... was already doing babel (6to5?) translations, so it was a natural progression.
Yeah, I Remember too the time Babel was named 6to5 lol