As Vinnl suggested, I interpreted dvt’s comment as disliking the declarative style rather than imperative. If the comment was instead intended just to object to the JSX/SVG syntax, then the objection seems rather superficial. It’s just an entity type and some named parameters, plus a bit of punctuation that will be immediately familiar to anyone working in front-end web development. If the alternative in dvt’s comment was meant to be a declarative specification of a circle and not an imperative call to draw one, then the biggest difference between

    <circle cx="150" cy="77" r="40" />

and

    draw.circle(150, 77, 40)

is that the former uses named parameters and the latter does not, and I suspect a lot of us would consider the former to be the more explicit, less error-prone choice in that case.