DOM is what we're talking about. The fact that it's commonly represented by HTML and that somehow influenced how we ought to create/manipulate it in our code is

DOM is what we're talking about. The fact that it's commonly represented by HTML and that somehow influenced how we ought to create/manipulate it in our code is exactly the problem. React has users write HTML-like syntax sugar that turns into createElement calls and i don't like that one bit. Hiccup[1] lets me write idiomatic Clojure code that represents DOM tree using convenient data literals and provides all necessary functions to manipulate it - and that i like. [1] https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup