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tried writing this blog 3 times but it’s really boring, so here’s the short version: React won. Every mainstream f/w now implements its ideas, and developed their own ecosystems. The ones that didn’t, lost and died. This implies there’s no _strong_ reason to not pick one of the other winners.

Without a compiler, and with the virtualized DOM paradigm, I don’t really know that react is in a great position to benefit from signals. Frameworks that use compilers and “templated“ DOM (including JSX usage) will always have an advantage using any reactive primitive for targeted updates

I do agree, but if they slacken the vdom paradigm a bit and allow signals to directly alter the backing DOM nodes, you can get much of the perf benefit whilst keeping most vdom semantics/control flow. Not that I think they'd go for it except maybe w/ the compiler, given past comments.

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