Interesting article. I’m going to play devil’s advocate and come at it from a business perspective. There are huge advantages to sticking with an industry standard. It makes it much easier to hire devs. If you’re a dev it makes it much easier to get work. Having a big ecosystem means less building from scratch. There are huge network effects at play. In order to get serious traction in a market with network effects, the alternative doesn’t need to be a bit better, it needs to be 10x better. React displaced jQuery because it was 10x better. None of these alternatives strike me as being 10x better at this point. Sure they’re a bit easier for devs and a bit faster, but I’ve never had a customer complain that the app took 500ms to load instead of 250ms. There’s other things they care about a lot more. At some point another framework is going to displace React, but I think React still has a huge advantage at this point.
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