React was a great idea; the problem was they did it in JavaScript instead of a pure, functional language. There's too many footguns where JS features like mutab

React was a great idea; the problem was they did it in JavaScript instead of a pure, functional language. There's too many footguns where JS features like mutability and async code can leak through, leading to a whole class of errors that could have been caught by a compiler but instead were left as cognitive load imposed on developers.