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Discussion on: Why React? Because it's pretty cool actually. Misunderstood at times, but cool 👍

 
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Brad Westfall

Yea, I'm saying if it aint exactly HTML then I guess we can say it deviates from the "standard" if that's the strict set of rules we're upholding things to. I'm not the one saying that but the JSX hater crowd seems uphold this for JSX and conveniently ignore that they (angular, vue, yours probably) do control flow in various ways that also isn't exactly HTML so to me that's splitting hairs (bike-shedding) over syntax which really doesn't matter

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Like, one of the main points that other article made was something to the effect of: "I can't copy JSX into another project as HTML and that rubs me the wrong way...", what, like you can with any of these template lang DLS syntax? The JSX hater crowd is one of the more ridiculous that Ive seen with their arguments and I've been doing this shit for 22 years

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Well, the author should have specified that he needs to do much more work copying JSX to another framework than copying code of libraries that use tagged template literals. The author may have accidentally implied that it's actually possible to copy from framework to framework, but to me it didn't seem so and his point was fairly clear.

The hater crowd, me included, sees that some things should be much easier than they are, even if the popular way is not so terrible.

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Brad Westfall

No worries. I'm sure we each have better things to do today, we can agree to disagree on JSX 😊