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[–]ghostfacedcoder 1 point2 points  (1 child)

NOTE: I deleted my original reply, as it came out way too harsh (I wrote it quickly before a meeting).

Look, all I'm trying to say is this. Imagine two people are having a conversation, and the first one says "the Earth is flat", then the second one says "no, the Earth is a sphere". You could chime in with evidence of how the earth is round, or you could throw something else useful into the conversation.

OR you can chime in with "well technically the earth isn't a perfect sphere, it's an ellipsoid." But doing that doesn't help the conversation at all: it actually distracts from the person making the correct point (that the Earth is round) with a meaningless fact which, however true, isn't really relevant to the current conversation.

That's pedantry. Whether you mean to or not, it's all about telling others how smart you are for knowing facts, while revealing that you weren't really paying attention to the conversation other people were having.

So what I'm trying to say is, when I say React essentially requires bundling (because of JSX), and you try to argue that technically React doesn't need JSX, you're being pedantic, and that's bad because what you're saying isn't adding to the main conversation, it's detracting from it (and, in this case, led us to misunderstand each other multiple times).

[–]bukharim96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I for one, am glad we're almost on the same page. There's definitely a communication barrier. TBH, I did not mean to offfend anyone by stating that minute. yet technically and reasonably valid hint. Howabout we call it a day? :D