React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation

Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by apsurd on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:54PM (#45256768)

fwiw i've never experienced the drawback of separate languages for server and client. nor did i ever experience the benefit of single language across server and client.

being forced to use javascript on the server sounds like a cruel joke vs a benefit. I mean just simply from "i can literally pick anything for my controlled server env" vs "no we're a js shop cuz web"

edit to add: is it one repo? or maybe shared types. typescript is probably the strongest argument. can enforce integrity truly across the stack. but i don't think that's worth being forced into js environment and packages. community is forced to reimplement everything in js. no good.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by marcosdumay on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:12PM (#45256873)

HTML templates and the shadow DOM solved the only problem of separated languages that I have ever actually seen.

So yeah, once there was a benefit for using the same language. IMO, it never was worth the cost. But it doesn't exist anymore anyway.

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