> Or the strange lack of any demonstrable examples of the performance improvements achieved by this feature... except the comparison demos.
React is winning because of real-world experience. Blog posts are somewhat meaningless, arguing specific nuances back and forth. Who knows what's actually right. But when you actually sit down and learn React, and use it in a complex app, you understand how easily it lets you fine-tune performance, and instead of getting in the way it helps you along the path to blazingly fast UIs.
Nothing is magical out of the box, the key is to help the user along the way and that's exactly what React excels at. Performance is a definite factor for choosing React.
Software doesn't achieve the level of fame of React (or Ember, or Angular for that matter) solely by hype. It may have a brief period of fame, but several years long of building a passionate community means there probably is something there.
> Blog posts are somewhat meaningless, arguing specific nuances back and forth.
I disagree. Your "Bloop" blog post about React with its game loop analogy totally opened my eyes. That's the first time I really "got it". Moved my org to React for all new development and haven't looked back. So thank you for your "somewhat meaningless" blog post!
Thanks :) Times like that I go well out of my way to try to make the post meaningful. I'm proud of that post because it focuses on new ideas and applying them in realistic ways.
A lot of blog posts tend to be taking a few random facts out of context and making some disingenuous conclusion. I'm not saying the original post here is like that exactly, but I don't think you can really get much from small posts like it.
React is winning because of real-world experience. Blog posts are somewhat meaningless, arguing specific nuances back and forth. Who knows what's actually right. But when you actually sit down and learn React, and use it in a complex app, you understand how easily it lets you fine-tune performance, and instead of getting in the way it helps you along the path to blazingly fast UIs.
Nothing is magical out of the box, the key is to help the user along the way and that's exactly what React excels at. Performance is a definite factor for choosing React.
Software doesn't achieve the level of fame of React (or Ember, or Angular for that matter) solely by hype. It may have a brief period of fame, but several years long of building a passionate community means there probably is something there.