> I don’t think React invented components, but to be honest I’m not quite sure where they first came from. I know there’s prior art going back to at least XAML

> I don’t think React invented components, but to be honest I’m not quite sure where they first came from. I know there’s prior art going back to at least XAML in .NET, and web components were also beginning to develop as a spec around then. He started programming in 2012. He does not know the 90s. Good for him. Honestly, I have no idea how long back components go ... my educated guess: Smalltalk? Minimum.