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2008 is more similar to 2018 than it is to 1998. I will wager that 2028 more similar to 2018 than 2018 was to 2008. Doesn't look like there's a future appearin

2008 is more similar to 2018 than it is to 1998. I will wager that 2028 more similar to 2018 than 2018 was to 2008. Doesn't look like there's a future appearing where we strap on our Magic Leap and wave our hands around and suddenly single page apps appear. I'm giving my opinion that React ecosystem will stay around for an absurd amount of time because unlike jQuery, the size of the community and usability of the tool scales really well. Maybe people said the same thing about Rails, or Motif, but I just feel like React is the end of the line for whatever we're doing here.

gaius 8y ago
See if the question is how do you host an application on a server and run thin clients with local rendering and some limited local interactivity... then that problem keeps getting solved over and over again. X11/Motif and “React running in the browser” are fundamentally the same thing. Every solution actually works pretty well, fulfilling all use cases. Then for no reason we chuck it all away and start again. All of this has happened before and will happen again