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Discussion on: Why I Stopped Using React (And You Should Too) 🔥

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Matti Bar-Zeev

Totally agree, and I would try SolidJS before Svelte since the mental model of development remains quite the same (jsx, etc.).
The main issue, as I see, it is that when a company "bets" on a technology, one of the main concerns is the ability to hire developers who master that technology. React has a strong grip on the FE dev community, and it's relatively easy to find devs for it, while SolidJS, Svelte or whatever are much harder to find developers for

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shiva shanker

Great point about SolidJS - the JSX familiarity definitely makes the transition easier. You're spot on about the hiring challenge. That's honestly one of the biggest barriers to adopting newer frameworks, even when they're technically superior.
It's a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Companies stick with React because developers know it, developers learn React because companies use it. Breaking that cycle takes time.