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Re:Ask HN: Is React too big to fail? by macando on Monday July 19, 2021 @05:12PM (#27887306)
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.

Re:Ask HN: Is React too big to fail? by nairboon on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:46AM (#27893623)
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 (#27900544)
That's a difference in implementation. You don't typically think about the virtual DOM when writing react.