alt Hacker NewsIt’s been an absolute joy to write Solid the last few years. After a workday of writing React, it always feels so liberating to come home to my personal solidjs code. When used with solid-primitives it feels very expressive and powerful. But mainly I think reactivity just jives with my mental model better than React’s top-down “rerender everything unless it’s a memo” approach. All that said, concerns about the solidjs ecosystem are valid. For example, if you want to use trpc your options are either to use v10 with an unmaintained adapter, or use v11 but not have the built-in support for tanstack-query that you would get with an adapter. Similarly, if you want to use framer motion, you’ll be a few versions behind the React folks. As someone who loves building my own stuff, usually ecosystem limitations don’t bother me too much, but it can feel frustrating to not get to use all the latest things available in the react ecosystem.
I use React for work but I don't like React probably for the same reasons you don't.
But like... can we stop having these reasonabe takes that's like "I like this better but oh no I need to remind you that in the real world it's tough until it's get real traction but I like it anyway" kind of argument?
Just say what you like and what you don't like and be done with it.
Nobody gives a damn about what you like what you don't like.
But everyone will give a damn about your opinions that consistently make their lives better.
So stop these "reasonable take" stuff ffs.