I thought that was irony, nuanced by a sly dig at Facebook. The gist being that React is what happens when a PHP shop creates a client-side framework, with all

I thought that was irony, nuanced by a sly dig at Facebook. The gist being that React is what happens when a PHP shop creates a client-side framework, with all the architectural warts that this might imply, if you're on the PHP-lowers-the-bar-to-web-programming-too-far bandwagon. (FB engineers would probably tell you that their variant, Hack, is a far cry from PHP, and their coding standards are well above that of your bargain-basement wordpress drudge, but you get the idea)