My problem with this article (apart from the title of the submission) is that the author's point is, IMHO, not very well thought out. It's not a question of "us

My problem with this article (apart from the title of the submission) is that the author's point is, IMHO, not very well thought out. It's not a question of "using the virtual DOM or not", it's a question of "use immediate rendering" (what the author attempts) or "use a diff-and-patch algorithm" (what React does).