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Developers of desktop/console apps, what do you think about React?

I found 3 categories of devs:1. Experienced web develoeprs who spent most of their carriers doing server side rendering with JS code here and there. 2. Youngsters who follow the hype. 3. Experienced devs with years of building Office like apps (traditional console apps).I can understand why #1, #2 are so crazy about React, but what about #3? After years of WPF, MVVM, WinForms, Qt, and etc -...

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Re:Javascript Constructors and Prototypes on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:17AM (#6139529)
>>Cat.prototype = new Mammal()

This is only useful if Mamaml has only methods and no properties which does not happen that often.

>> Cat.prototype.constructor = Cat

I never saw a practical usage of this one :-)

I think these days the standard way of doing inheritance should be -> MyClass.prototype = Object.create(baseClass.prototype)

After first glance it seems that React started way before modern frameworks emerged or am I wrong?
Just recently our company started developing WEB version of our product and our testers keep writing tests to verify that UI controls can correctly display unicode characters. Does it make much sense to do that if all our control if they are all HTML/JavaScript based?