I’ve been thinking about the “je ne sais quoi” that makes hooks troublesome for a lot of developers and I think it comes down to this: hooks are heavily reliant

I’ve been thinking about the “je ne sais quoi” that makes hooks troublesome for a lot of developers and I think it comes down to this: hooks are heavily reliant on memo-ization, and memo-ization is a form of caching. Maybe the worst form, since it creates lots of micro-caches throughout your code. Along with GOTO statements, global variables, and bare thread models, cache consistency is a well known bane of programmers. For some reason though, it seems “memoization considered harmful” has not become a meme yet.