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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by WHATDOESIT on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:19PM (#32914855)
There was no way to make async rendering possible with classes. It was necessary and they spent a lot of time trying different approaches that'd continue the old paradigm, but it couldn't be done.
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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by pier25 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @02:27PM (#32915880)
Maybe, but would you need async rendering if React wasn't so slow?
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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by WHATDOESIT on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:46PM (#32916827)
As opposed to what? Vue is slower and Angular too. Perhaps Svelte might be faster but the programming paradigm is a little weird. Writing pure JS is bullshit - I tried it few months ago and even a very simple app - for public transport schedules - got very unmanageable very quickly.

I'm currently working on a project with hundreds of reactive components shown at any given time (very extensive financial analytics/modeling collected from over 500 data sources and real-time updated). Async rendering is a godsend. Perhaps React isn't for you if you don't see the need.

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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by pier25 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:02PM (#32917014)
There are literally dozens of libs/frameworks faster than React.

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by WHATDOESIT on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:07PM (#32917096)
Lol, you really think someone is going to stray off the well-supported path for apps like these for 1-10% gain? This app shows a loading indicator quite a lot. Speed is important but nobody cares about raw speed this much. What we care about is a well-maintained library with significant ecosystem that's still going to be there in 2030 and it's super-easy to find devs and/or get help. The libs there are beta quality at best - maybe in few years.
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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by pier25 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @05:15PM (#32917882)
"nobody cares about speed but give me async rendering because React is too slow"
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Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down by WHATDOESIT on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:17AM (#32921737)
The point is I'm not going to compare against small libs with no ecosystem, slow maintenance, small community and low amount of developers ready to use it - these new libs sound nice but it's beta software, not something to be used in production for apps like I work on. Speed is important but not this important.

What remains is React, Angular and Vue - and out of these React wins by a huge margin, also thanks to async rendering.

I'm looking forward having another look at the remaining libs in a few years.

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