There's clearly no pressing need to distinguish the pixely variety from virtual DOM calculation with the term (otherwise it wouldn't have caught on) There is a

There's clearly no pressing need to distinguish the pixely variety from virtual DOM calculation with the term (otherwise it wouldn't have caught on) There is a need: in order to maximise performance, we often talk about avoiding needless vdom recomputations and also about avoiding the browser to recalc the layout aka rerender. If I say in a commit "avoid needless re-rendering of CardList when a Card is added" You cannot understand the nature of the performance issue if you use both re-rendering for vdom and layout. Indeed language evolve to a local minima of being good enough to understand each other good enougthly in most cases. I would have hoped language evolution to improve over time but the world is not ready for creating an institution that would allow that. In the meantime, I and others that understand that maximising semantical understanding matter, will keep voicing.