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This article was great…up until the very end when it failed to mention any alternatives to React that already exist. "Alpert, who helped chart React’s rise, do
by jaredcwhite 6y ago
This article was great…up until the very end when it failed to mention any alternatives to React that already exist.
"Alpert, who helped chart React’s rise, doesn’t see an alternative emerging anytime soon."
This is completely ridiculous. Vue, Svelte, LitElement / Web Components, to name but a few. Maddening to see this level of journalistic malpractice.
- couchcombinator 6y agoThere are alternatives to React indeed, but those you mentioned are conceptually very different.
- gutino 6y agoVue has also JSX as optional for the template system. you can see react as a subset of Vue.
- bluedevil2k 6y ago"journalistic malpractice" - he's merely passing on the sentiment of the main subject of the piece.
- simplify 6y agoIs it really that maddening? This response feels much too political. There are things worth getting mad about, and then there are JavaScript frameworks.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoAlso, why does everything have to be so radicalized? "Journalistic malpractice"? It's hard to have earnest discourse in 2020 for this reason. People often push everything to the extreme immediately.
- esperent 6y agoPushing debate to extremes is as old as humanity. I don't see any evidence to suggest that it's gotten worse recently (certain countries recent political increase in extremism notwithstanding).
- exogen 6y agoThe writing could be improved, but to me it's clear that the previous paragraph is providing the context for this statement: they're talking about alternatives to using frameworks that provide a higher level of abstraction. Not alternatives to React itself.
- jaredcwhite 6y agoI could see that interpretation. It's not very clear to me though…
- sophiebits 6y ago(Sophie Alpert here.) What I meant is it’s not clear the next thing that will _replace_ React. Certainly there are plenty of great alternatives, each with their own pros and cons – but at this point, none clearly poised to “take over”.
- jaredcwhite 6y agoI appreciate the clarification Sophie. :) Sometimes quotes just don't come through well in translation in finished articles.