No, he meant function calls as opposed to JSX, clarified in another comment.
Re:It's React, but in Python
by resoluteteeth on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:44PM
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> He means API calls, obviously overloaded the term "function calls" a bit
No they literally meant generating html like h1() rather than <h1></h1> in something like jsx templates
(I initially wasn't sure if they were talking about the model of server side rendering with client side events passed back to the server through a websocket either though)
In this case, I think it's also clear that most things you'd call an "application" abhor this behavior, which is why heavy clients are so popular, and small shops without frontend engineering talent are making a big push away from heavy clients which raises all the hubbub about HTMX etc