> it was much faster than most handwritten non-trivial DOM code That would be incredibly rare. Despite the myth propagated, React is unlikely to be faster unle

> it was much faster than most handwritten non-trivial DOM code That would be incredibly rare. Despite the myth propagated, React is unlikely to be faster unless you were doing a ton of interleaved layout-triggering reads and writes. Even naive direct dom-diffing approaches like hyperapp/choo/morphdom can be faster.