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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The handwavey sales pitch for React was that "DOM is slow" (it's not; never was).
This was always a bad summary of a real issue: when you don't understand which DOM APIs induce the costs of layout, it's easy to find yourself with "weird" performance, and DOM API names don't make that clear.
But React didn't solve the problem, it only made it *look* solved until a codebase gets large enough, simultaneously depriving teams of the experience they need to diagnose and solve these issues.