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0 pointskamaal7mo ago0 comments

Im not sure how this is a negative merit for React.

Besides if you are a small company, or a start up, your job is to get things done. Not to embark on a global technology crusade to push your favourite tech.

By and large the best thing about react is the overall ecosystem, libraries, talent and ubiquitousness. And thats a good thing.

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_heimdall7mo ago

It isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't align with the idea of how good react is or the technical merits of it.

I also am not saying teams I have been on that picked react made the wrong choice. That's all in context and as you said startups are often in the "get things done" mentality where tech debt won't matter if you can't survive long enough for it to matter.

tcoff917mo ago

It’s good enough that the ecosystem outweighs the superiority of something like SolidJS.

React has React Native as part of its ecosystem. That’s a massive advantage. react-strict-dom is going to be a game changer for the development of universal apps.

_heimdall7mo ago

We're talking about two different topics here. I agree, the ecosystem around react is huge and there are reasons a team would pick react. Ecosystem isn't an indicator of the technical merits of react itself though, and that's what I was originally responding to here.

fireflash387mo ago

That's a thought terminating cliche.

You aren't arguing on merits. You're arguing on everything else. Why aren't we all still using C? Or B? Why isn't every website on good old PHP?

Things change because people want better or different. Saying "people already use it" is not an argument for something.

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_heimdall7mo ago

It isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn't align with the idea of how good react is or the technical merits of it.

tcoff917mo ago

It’s good enough that the ecosystem outweighs the superiority of something like SolidJS.

React has React Native as part of its ecosystem. That’s a massive advantage. react-strict-dom is going to be a game changer for the development of universal apps.

_heimdall7mo ago

fireflash387mo ago

That's a thought terminating cliche.

You aren't arguing on merits. You're arguing on everything else. Why aren't we all still using C? Or B? Why isn't every website on good old PHP?

Things change because people want better or different. Saying "people already use it" is not an argument for something.

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