Firstly, as the article emphasises, _diffing_ is far from the only issue with virtual DOM. And this isn't about microbenchmarks; plenty of people have run up ag

Firstly, as the article emphasises, _diffing_ is far from the only issue with virtual DOM. And this isn't about microbenchmarks; plenty of people have run up against React's performance limits in real world applications and have had to spend time engaging in menial optimisation work as a result. Secondly, you're dismissive of the idea that 'the virtual DOM is fast' is a meme (in the original Dawkinian sense; I'm not talking about gifs with Impact-typefaced captions), which suggests you haven't spent a lot of time around developers on places like Twitter and Stack Overflow. This misperception _absolutely_ exists, and this article was written to correct it, not to 'sell' Svelte. Svelte isn't intent on 'taking over'. We're quite happy providing developers with an alternative to React that enables them to write less code and not have to worry about performance. That said, I'd argue the 'irrelevant' label is somewhat unfair (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1409529125539254277 https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1409529125539254277, https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-frameworks/ https://2020.stateofjs.com/en-US/technologies/front-end-fram...).