Java applets were the very first incarnation of WebGL and WASM really. > to phase out the current browser technology while building something that applies the

Java applets were the very first incarnation of WebGL and WASM really. > to phase out the current browser technology while building something that applies the lessons learned from the current web and build something that is simple and powerful. Yeah, I do remember couple of HTML/CSS rendering implementations in Java applets so we've been there, seen that. As of React … React is a Scottish dance for just being able to get didMount/didUnmount calls on custom elements, that can be accomplished way easier. Yet use of diff algorithms (polynomial complexity, sic!) for just populating DOM is kind of too much …