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Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption by trgn on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:39AM (#43048781)
had to have hooks though. And vanilla-OO had to go in favor of trapping state in closures, which is cooler because it has functions and not methods.
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Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption by Hasu on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:58AM (#43048962)
You can still use vanilla-OO React.

Do you complain when other frameworks add new features without breaking backwards compatibility?

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Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption by CharlieDigital on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:15PM (#43050576) 

    > You can still use vanilla-OO React
What we want is signals-based React because it would singularly fix the issue that the compiler is solving for and remove the need to even have `useMemo` and `useCallback`, improve performance, and remove a huge footgun.

Because it has such a huge marketshare, a fix like this would have tremendous positive effects in web dev.

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Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption by trgn on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:55AM (#43050383)
I certainly did complain! And I'm sure I'll do it again if the new features aimed to supplant the old ones are worse.

If you search anything about React now, 90% of the docs are hook-based. Beginners of React in 2025 will be guided to use a default pattern which has worse runtime footprint and adds a whole suite of new tool-specific coding guidelines ("rules of hook"). After years with it, I struggle to see what it has added in terms of building front-end SPas, yet the pattern is now the default for all using React.

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