alt Hacker NewsHeh, not an argument against you or any point you made, today you are right. But when React first made an appearance, basically the two big selling points was 1) use same state in multiple places and 2) better performance.
Fun how with time, the core purpose of a library ever so slightly change :)
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k__ • today at 11:39 AM
I mean, that was a decade ago and back in the day the only reasonable contenders were Angular and maaaaybe ExtJS.
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Was React really faster than Prototype? Anyway today it is one of the slowest: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2026/chrom...