I am watching patiently from a distance to my hands on a well-designed frontend language but can't help to wonder... is it really _that_ inefficient to call a JS wrapper to touch the DOM?
Most code already is so horribly inefficient that I can't imagine this making a noticeable difference in most scenarios.
No, it's not that bad honestly. But it's not more efficient than JS either, and all this ugly glue code hurts my sensibility.