I don’t have a dog in the AI fight, but it seems pretty plausible that React’s core concepts would have been part of a hypothetical 20 years ago training set. A

I don’t have a dog in the AI fight, but it seems pretty plausible that React’s core concepts would have been part of a hypothetical 20 years ago training set. All of these were part of at least academic discourse: - Algebraic effects - DSLs designed to be expressive and statically analyzable - [Thing] as a function of state (I’m not sure how much this was applied to UI specifically, but if I had to take a wild guess, probably) - Abstraction of declarative definitions from computational instructions If anything, I think a declarative UI model could have come much sooner if there weren’t such deep investment in other techniques. Not that a hypothetical AI of the time would have arrived at that, but I definitely think it had enough training material to go on.