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Nothing in HTML is immediate mode. Any framework with a DOM is retained mode, by definition.

• pedro_movai 3mo ago
  But the api is trying to simulate immediate mode using DOM
  • inigyou 3mo ago
    That's called an "abomination". The advantage of immediate mode is not storing a DOM. If you write immediate-mode code but it stores a DOM anyway then it's the worst of both worlds.
    • Warwolt 3mo ago
      How would you do layouting without a tree structure in place? Not really sure what you're getting at here
      • inigyou 3mo ago
        You have discovered one advantage of retained-mode designs.
    • sroerick 3mo ago
      Isn't that literally React? I find it so immeasurably funny that in his effort to simplify code and invent immediate mode UI, Casey Muratori accidentally invented React