> Sure, it requires a bit of discipline I strongly suspect that in ages past you would have been an ASM programmer shaking your fist at those crazy portable C

> Sure, it requires a bit of discipline I strongly suspect that in ages past you would have been an ASM programmer shaking your fist at those crazy portable C programmers, and then a C programmer shaking his fist angrily at those crazy memory safe Java programmers. Progress in programming can be marked by eliminating the need for ceremonial kinds of strict discipline needed to achieve good results. Which isn't to say React is some kind of next evolution, but signals certainly are a step in the right direction.