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At once I sympathize with your viewpoint and also have to say that React is the longest I've ever seen a Javascript thing stay in the notoriously fickle good gr

At once I sympathize with your viewpoint and also have to say that React is the longest I've ever seen a Javascript thing stay in the notoriously fickle good graces of the frontend world – short of perhaps jQuery. Railing against it is railing against the best-in-class example of what you want... even if it still falls short of what you want. A decade is nothing to sneeze at.

mattmanser 4y ago
But it hasn't really lasted has it? We've had React 1 (components) and now React 2 (hooks), they just managed the transition better than angular and so gobbled that market share. jQuery stayed mostly stable, there was only one version that I can remember where it was a bit of a hassle to upgrade it. But it's quite a while ago now, so could be mis-remembering.
- andrewmcwatters 4y ago
  Right, exactly. Had Angular.JS slowly implemented what is now just Angular, they wouldn't have displaced so many people so fast. I think it still would have happened, but it's a shortsighted read into competitive analysis to not understand how this happened.
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- ojkelly 4y ago
  It has lasted as a project. Are you saying that no library should try to improve their performance, internals or API? There was many versions of jQuery. I remember the days of hacking Drupal to load multiple versions because it shipped with an older version, but we needed a newer one for other dependencies.