So far, the React team's work is focused on optimising your app code using Prepack (kind of like Angular's AoT compilation, or similar forms of preparsing that

So far, the React team's work is focused on optimising your app code using Prepack (kind of like Angular's AoT compilation, or similar forms of preparsing that have existed in other frameworks for a few years) — you still need React itself. It's far from clear that it'll ever be possible to compile a React app to something that doesn't need virtual DOM reconciliation, with all that entails.