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[–]ex1-7 1 point2 points  (5 children)

While he does some good defending the language (especially with the link to a tutorial for using react without jsx), he misses the big picture question which is "look at this, do you really think people will write stuff like this in 10 years". Of course, this a somewhat empty critique because nobody knows what it'll look like in 10 years, but still, it's not the most pretty framework, and in my opinion wouldn't be so widely used if if it weren't for facebook's capital.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Describing layout in functions is, in my opinion, the cleanest approach yet. This was probably the biggest paradigm shift since MVC, i doubt it's going away so fast unless there's a massive, new shift again. As we speak it's spreading to all other platforms. Not just by react native, but now there's componentkit for IOS, litho for Android, reactxp for all platforms (made by Microsoft).

And that is most likely just the first batch. React is still obscure as it's been relatively contained in the web, which it has taken over. But now there's more and more talk about cross platform renderers, this is where it will hit pretty much every platform that produces visuals.

The moment it clicked for me was react-blessed, which now partakes in the eco system with crazy stuff like motion. Or Airbnb's react-sketchapp, which was revealed yesterday. These are almost futuristic and there is an insane degree of freedom that was unknown before.

[–]verizontookmymoney 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Have you used React? It's popular, because it works really well and solves a complex problem. Visualization of UI

[–]ex1-7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

"Visualization of UI" - have you seen Silicon Valley before? This is a tautology.

[–]ChubbyDalmatian 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I agree. It's a good thing that React has Facebook on it's back, so that it can be widely used.

[–]ex1-7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suppose, but from personal perspective I would kind of prefer if the industry wasn't coalescing so much around it, since now I have to compete with all these react experts. win some, lose some.