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Toot CaféAlex Russell (@slightlyoff@toot.cafe)At absolutely no point in the 2020s should you, or anyone you don't hate, start a project with React.
There are a lot of reasons for this -- that it's legacy tech built for a world where IE 6 still had measurable share, that the Reactor community has been wrong about everything all the time for a decade+, that the money you'll save can be measured in truck-loads -- but the *most* important is that it will opt you out of the godforsaken React discourse.
Be free! Never look back. Do engineering.
@davidbisset Clearly I just wasted a fair amount of time recently learning React 
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But in all seriousness, I can see why folks dislike it. And there are a _lot_ of alternatives to it now.
React isn't going anywhere anytime soon though...
@davidbisset I read through the replies, and found this:
https://muan.co/posts/javascript
Really interesting blogpost.
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