Facebook supports React simply because it's a tool that allows them to effectively develop UIs that perform well. That's it. > That means you pay for the down

Facebook supports React simply because it's a tool that allows them to effectively develop UIs that perform well. That's it. > That means you pay for the download cost, it can never be as fully performant as things that run natively on the GPU If you're talking about the web, the virtual-dom diffing strategy employed by React performs better than other ways to render complex UIs in the browser. > it won't integrate well with the rest of CSS/HTML, etc. The whole point of React is to make writing CSS and HTML easier. It integrates wonderfully.