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Entirely subjective and I would disagree with dart. JSX is one of the most important things react ever popularised in the frontend space.

bloomingkales 2y ago
Perfect world: JS and CSS compile to native, somehow. My ability to do this function App() () { const items = get(url); render(items) } Does not exist on native. It's 2025. Why is this? ---- It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.
- phist_mcgee 2y ago
  >It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY. Mate, I think this is a bit of a reach.
  - bloomingkales 2y ago
    It's a vent. I don't like writing comprehensive code for simple things. Philosophically, I believe code is a liability. Each line is a problem. The article alludes to something people do. They wrote a whole lot of code to not write a whole lot of code. These are deep stories.
CharlieDigital 2y ago
What do you find attractive WRT JSX versus other templating syntax?
mdhb 2y ago
I suspect you maybe haven’t used Dart then because it’s genuinely not even close. I know in a philosophical sense everything is subjective when you squint hard enough but I’m also talking about very clear and concrete things. Just to give one simple example. Take the concept of a mixin where you want to essentially create a partial class interface and use it for basic composition. An incredibly straightforward 101 level OOP concept. Then take a look at how it works in Typescript here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html and contrast that with how you do the same thing in Dart here: https://dart.dev/language/mixins https://dart.dev/language/mixins I’ve got extensive experience with both. I promise you Dart is much much much nicer to work with on every relevant metric I can think of.

bloomingkales 2y ago

Perfect world: JS and CSS compile to native, somehow. My ability to do this function App() () { const items = get(url); render(items) } Does not exist on native. It's 2025. Why is this? ---- It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY.

phist_mcgee 2y ago
>It's because we don't have literate programmers. They don't know how to speak CLEARLY. Mate, I think this is a bit of a reach.
- bloomingkales 2y ago
  It's a vent. I don't like writing comprehensive code for simple things. Philosophically, I believe code is a liability. Each line is a problem. The article alludes to something people do. They wrote a whole lot of code to not write a whole lot of code. These are deep stories.

CharlieDigital 2y ago

What do you find attractive WRT JSX versus other templating syntax?

mdhb 2y ago

I suspect you maybe haven’t used Dart then because it’s genuinely not even close. I know in a philosophical sense everything is subjective when you squint hard enough but I’m also talking about very clear and concrete things. Just to give one simple example. Take the concept of a mixin where you want to essentially create a partial class interface and use it for basic composition. An incredibly straightforward 101 level OOP concept. Then take a look at how it works in Typescript here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html and contrast that with how you do the same thing in Dart here: https://dart.dev/language/mixins https://dart.dev/language/mixins I’ve got extensive experience with both. I promise you Dart is much much much nicer to work with on every relevant metric I can think of.