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Re:React Concurrent Mode by XCSme on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:47PM (#21349538)
I do feel that the application use-case has already been reached, yet I do not think this cycle speed is going to change. I do hope that at some point this will stop as this cycle is wasting way too many human brain resources which could be otherwise used on more interesting problems.
Re:React Concurrent Mode by _bxg1 on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:54PM (#21349597)
> I do feel that the application use-case has already been reached

It clearly hasn't though, as demonstrated by this very OP ;)

Everything people are complaining about here, in addition to the problem being addressed by Concurrency Mode, are things that writers of native apps don't have to fight with:

- Lack of concurrency

- Complex, layered build systems

- Several layers of syntax transformation as an industry baseline

- Lack of a consistent story for modules

- Overall jank-proneness

- Platform bloat like that in Electron

But then why re-solve all these problems if you can just build a native app? Because native platforms over the decades have repeatedly tried and failed to a) be truly cross-platform and b) have truly flexible, well-documented layout systems. The web gives us those. We just have to go back in and add the things it lacks.

When all of these problems have been solved and a new framework is still coming out every week, then we can talk about frivolous effort being expended. Until then these are real, worthwhile problems being worked on.

Re:React Concurrent Mode by bryanrasmussen on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:16PM (#21350150)
I agree that native platforms have failed to give us the things that the web platform gives us, and that we want those things in our solutions, but it does not mean that we will ever actually be able to add in the things that the web lacks - I suppose that we will be able to but I must also entertain the possibility that there is some mutually contradictory thing in the two paradigms that we are not seeing.