Hooks make a lot more sense from a traditional FRP perspective. The code you write with hooks is basically identical to the code you'd write with early FRP syst

Hooks make a lot more sense from a traditional FRP perspective. The code you write with hooks is basically identical to the code you'd write with early FRP systems. For instance, useState is called newWire in FranTk. The difference is that hooks have various limitations about where you can create them and how you can pass them around, which those FRP systems don't have. That's the result of React using plain old data as state, instead of having a signal abstraction as in FRP. In React the component function gets re-executed every time the state changes, whereas with FRP the component function gets executed once and builds up a dataflow graph that deals with the changes. That makes hooks very natural because they're just nodes in the dataflow graph.