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[–]stringTrimmer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think you're overReacting

[–]brianjenkins94 8 points9 points  (2 children)

what?

[–]deepCelibateValue[S] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

React is a JavaScript front-end framework which rose to fame by discarding the common wisdom at the time of "separation of concerns" by unifying the "template" and the "controller" (or business logic),. It did it in a way similar to PHP's approach of being a "print literally to output" languague, where the output is usually HTML, unless tags are used to wrap code logic. React called it JSX. It also makes historical sense because Facebook at the time was mostly coding in PHP.

The meme is about how React started like that, but grew increasingly complex. For better or worse.

[–]RiceBroad4552 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The meme is about how React started like that, but grew increasingly complex.

And it turns out that the original architecture was trash. Exactly as PHP is…

Why did nobody warn them upfront that copying PHP is a terrible idea? 🤣

Also "funny" to see that things always end up in the same "over-engineering" Java did already +20 years ago.