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React is more like 'Lambda the Ultimate Web Component'. A component is almost a function returns element. Expanding a component is like calling a function and

React is more like 'Lambda the Ultimate Web Component'. A component is almost a function returns element. Expanding a component is like calling a function and give it the property. So you can have some abstract common behavior in HOC f and g, then you can have HOC `h = compose(f(g))`. A quick comparison with Angular: @Component({template, style}) seems composable if we stretch a lot. But why make template and style in the decorator... They are not something we consider most abstract at all. The function is the simplest yet composable abstraction over the template, Cheng Lou also has a really excellent talk on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE&t=1470s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE&t=1470s

DonHopkins 7y ago
We can only hope that Guy Steele swoops in and saves the day by implementing React in hardware! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860722 The Great Quux's Lisp Microprocessor is the big one on the left of the second image, and you can see his name "(C) 1978 GUY L STEELE JR" if you zoom in: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78chip%20photo-2%20L.jpg http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78c... Design of a LISP-based microprocessor https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359031 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359031
- namelosw 7y ago
  Also according to Wikipedia[0] Brendan Eich was supposed to create 'Scheme in browser' but in the end it became scheme with Java syntax. I always wonder if it was real 'scheme in browser' the web would advanced faster, at least S-expression is good at expression HTML. Therefore we wouldn't have to wait JSX until 20 years later... [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
jordache 7y ago
whether getting a component via a function call, vs an named export identifier (component class) - They have essentially the same net benefit over time. A function that returns a component has no more reusability than a component class' identifier. That component itself has a very narrow use case of it being a UI component.

DonHopkins 7y ago

We can only hope that Guy Steele swoops in and saves the day by implementing React in hardware! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860722 The Great Quux's Lisp Microprocessor is the big one on the left of the second image, and you can see his name "(C) 1978 GUY L STEELE JR" if you zoom in: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78chip%20photo-2%20L.jpg http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/InstGuide/MIT78c... Design of a LISP-based microprocessor https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359031 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359031

namelosw 7y ago
Also according to Wikipedia[0] Brendan Eich was supposed to create 'Scheme in browser' but in the end it became scheme with Java syntax. I always wonder if it was real 'scheme in browser' the web would advanced faster, at least S-expression is good at expression HTML. Therefore we wouldn't have to wait JSX until 20 years later... [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

jordache 7y ago

whether getting a component via a function call, vs an named export identifier (component class) - They have essentially the same net benefit over time. A function that returns a component has no more reusability than a component class' identifier. That component itself has a very narrow use case of it being a UI component.