The core of React is the VirtualDOM and how it simplifies interaction with the hypermedia. React has gone way past that original simplification toward curing ca

The core of React is the VirtualDOM and how it simplifies interaction with the hypermedia. React has gone way past that original simplification toward curing cancer or solving the faster-than-light-speed problem (take your pick). This shazz should have been a separate effort. Most of the original criticisms centers around NPM, which belies the hell that is JavaScript. Since everyone compiles JS anyway, we should stop writing in it altogether. Pick some other language ecosystem that transpiles to JS. Delenda Est NPM.