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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by rkomorn on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:33AM (#45260039)
This is the first time I've seen someone argue that adding syntactic sugar means creating a new language.
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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:21AM (#45260358)
it really depends on how much syntactic sugar you add.

You could go back 13 years, show somebody some JSX and ask them what language they think it is and nobody would be well that's obviously JavaScript with a bit of sugar on top.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by rkomorn on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:57AM (#45260580)
Sure, if I'd been replying to a comment that had anything resembling nuance, that would be applicable.

It did not.

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