Re:Vanilla-todo: A case study on viable techniques for vanil...
by morrvs on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:07PM
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I've heard the Assembly vs. C analogy a couple times now, and find it hard to apply:
Assembly languages come in many flavors whereas C is a single, standard abstraction over these.
DOM is a single, standard API whereas frameworks/libraries come in many, ever-changing flavors and provide different abstractions over the DOM.
It's a very different situation. Also, the level of abstraction that C provides over assembly is amazing. The level of abstraction that React provides over the DOM is comparably low (they are based on the same programming language).
Assembly languages come in many flavors whereas C is a single, standard abstraction over these.
DOM is a single, standard API whereas frameworks/libraries come in many, ever-changing flavors and provide different abstractions over the DOM.
It's a very different situation. Also, the level of abstraction that C provides over assembly is amazing. The level of abstraction that React provides over the DOM is comparably low (they are based on the same programming language).