Re:Ask HN: Is React too big to fail?
by ullevaal on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:52PM
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In the sense "will you still find new job listings in a decade if you learn it now", then I would say highly likely. In the case its not, the path from React to the Next Big Thing™ will be very publicised and you'll be drowning in blog posts describing the differences.
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Yeah, I wonder will we see the Next Big Front-end Thing™ in the following 5 to 10 years. I remember how fundamentally novel and different React felt when it started getting traction.
Now, all its competitors (Vue, Flutter, Svelte, Solid) look very React-like to me. A few minor improvements in some areas but nothing groundbreakingly different.
Elm is different but remained niche and obviously too exotic for mainstream. There's something about the pure-functional approach that doesn't sit well with most people.
Svelte is different from the rest of that list. In Svelte you don't use a virtual DOM to watch for changes, instead you compile the app and hard-code all changes.
Re:Ask HN: Is React too big to fail?
by schwartzworld on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:32PM
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That's a difference in implementation. You don't typically think about the virtual DOM when writing react.