React highlights how crummy the DOM is for performance-sensitive apps and how fantastic JavaScript has become. When devs' current fatigue wears off, I hope the

React highlights how crummy the DOM is for performance-sensitive apps and how fantastic JavaScript has become. When devs' current fatigue wears off, I hope they pick up React and see just how different it is. Browsers need an alternate DOM api with simplified immutable data structures and a tunable subset of CSS before I'd be comfortable with interacting with it directly. There are a zillion beartraps in DOM and CSS.