It occurs to me that, for years, web platforms sought to keep developers from ever having to touch dirty old JS. I can remember all sorts of overcomplicated ASP

It occurs to me that, for years, web platforms sought to keep developers from ever having to touch dirty old JS. I can remember all sorts of overcomplicated ASP.NET widgets that were like that. Now we want JS and don't want to deal with gross native APIs. Perhaps it's not the same "we", though I personally am very excited about this. I love JS and I think React's ideas are the right ones for building UIs.