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Re:The Failed Promise of Web Components by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#24642466)
Related to this, it annoys me that Polymer is sometimes described as not a framework, as if it's just a set of polyfills/shims.

Of course it's a framework, it provides a data-binding system that is incompatible with other frameworks, and which isn't simply a polyfill.

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Re:The Failed Promise of Web Components by brundolf on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:19PM (#24642595)
Exactly. The best piece of supporting evidence for my original point is that even Google themselves, in all of their Web Components marketing, used Polymer for everything. To the point where some people didn't really even understand the distinction between the two! That was a giant admission that this stuff is useless without databinding.
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