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Re:The rise of React by hombre_fatal on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:19PM (#23372363)
Don't really buy this.

React is a lot simpler than all of the other frameworks/APIs/SDKs I've used like Cocoa/UIKit that draw a UI on a client that only a fraction of people can use. You'd expect it to be simpler, not more complicated, if you get to target a

Also, unlike iOS dev (for example), the web still has a trivial `echo "<div>hello world</div>" > index.html` you can use when you want it.

I always wonder how many web-client dev critics have done much work building clients on other platforms. Spoiler: it never was simple nor easy. And people's favorite hey day examples only worked for a specific platform.

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