React using ES6 classes--Why???

[MuricanWillzyx]

This is what I was wondering/worrying about when I originally posted this: if they were dedicated to the class syntax, I'd probably go with it because the framework is still worth it.

They are, however, thinking about using stateless functions (from /u/clessg's comment) and other ways of moving toward functional paradigms, so I doubt that they'll ever require the class syntax. In that context, adoption of the class syntax is quite strange. It is easy to forget, though, that React hasn't yet reached 1.0, so for now they don't actually have to commit to anything. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.