This is the exact reason I've commented (and been shouted down for) saying that React is a fad. It's trying to replace fundamental core system with a layer, and

This is the exact reason I've commented (and been shouted down for) saying that React is a fad. It's trying to replace fundamental core system with a layer, and do it better. It will never work, it can't. Eventually everyone will figure out that building "apps" with DOM manipulation will never be as performant as lower level coding (ie, not a script layer), and they will move on. And the DOM will return to light apps and general purpose websites with basic interactivity. How can it go any other way? Btw, the only reason I am posting this is bit out of frustration that stating something so obvious makes some people really angry. I suspect its because they have invested so much in React, and don't want to consider it a temporary hack until webassembly or shadow dom or some other tech makes it completely obsolete. I tried out Atom, it's miserably slow. And I recently downloaded VScode, just to give it a whirl, and it's impressively faster. But I use Komodo, and that is based on Scintilla and Firefox, and it works just fine.