> 100ms latency??!?!?!? In my world 100ms are centuries Yup that's crappy. The ease of it happening, the Work At A Startup page used to have this issue (may st

> 100ms latency??!?!?!? In my world 100ms are centuries Yup that's crappy. The ease of it happening, the Work At A Startup page used to have this issue (may still, haven't looked lately) shows that it isn't hard to make accidentally happen. As I said, it is a weakness of the system. > sx is a retarded idea because it adds an abstraction over something brutally simple(html) Have you seen how minimal of an abstraction jsx is? It is a simple rewrite to a JS function that spits out HTML, but JSX is super nice to write and more grep-able than the majority of other templating systems. I have a predisposition to not liking templating systems, but JSX is the best part of React. Notably it doesn't invent it's own control flow language, unlike most competitors in this space. > My immediate thought was "this is retarded". Well the most famous SPA is gmail and it's rather popular, you may have heard of it. It is bloated now, but when it first debuted it was really good. Webmail sucked, then suddenly it didn't. Google maps. Outlook web client. Pandora. Online chat rooms, In browser video chat, (now with cool positional sound!) SPA just means you are just fetching the minimum needed data from the server to fulfill the user's request, instead of refetching the entire DOM. They are inherently an optimization. Non-SPAs can be slow bloated messes as well, e.g. the Expedia site.