> Spotify is also very slow with thousands of placeholder skeletons. Remember that Spotify once had a very fast native player.
Are you under the impression that the placeholder skeletons are there and slow because of React? How would a UI written in C++ get the data quicker from the back end to replace the skeleton with?
> Are you under the impression that the placeholder skeletons are there and slow because of React? How would a UI written in C++ get the data quicker from the back end to replace the skeleton with?
Regardless of how, the fact remains that the previous implementation of their UI did fetch and render the data from the backend significantly faster than the current React-based one does.