At that point you remove the benefit of the compiler but that is fine. You are essentially writing a builder script like VDOM HyperScript. But it isn't like the

At that point you remove the benefit of the compiler but that is fine. You are essentially writing a builder script like VDOM HyperScript. But it isn't like there isn't a runtime portion, it just that it can be smaller due to treeshaking and that the change mechanism is generic (used for everything). I imagine this just falls into the classic Reactive vs VDOM scenario, where VDOM is more performant on creation and reactive is more performant on update. The compiler is just something a reactive library can use to its benefit given it does most of its work at creation. So if this is your primary use case where there aren't really pre-existing templates, a fast VDOM is probably slightly better if you aren't doing much in the way of updating. But hard to say. There is a runtime HyperScript version of Solid that is still blazing fast, but it is probably slightly slower overall than Inferno since it can't leverage the pre-compilation of JSX or JIT compilation the Tagged Template Literals.