Comment by lucideer

This is a bizarrely written article - as a frontend dev it left me wondering who the target audience is. Is it so-called "vibe coders"?

The language throughout is "dumbed down" as if written for a recruiter or non-technical founder who's only heard of "react" as a buzzword:

> Hyper is the language (think React, but simpler)

React isn't a language. JSX is a language, but still doesn't compare well to a full DSL like Hyper. Svelte would be a more sensible comparison here (but given your chosen metrics I suspect it wouldn't make Hyper look as good).

The title seems deliberately misleading - I see nothing about performance in the piece. You seem to be using the word "perform" to mean "hits some arbitrary metrics we selected", like cloc of your own app (no mention of cloc of the node_modules folder).

The comparisons are also nonsense. The first React "modern version" is comparing Hyper to ShadCN, not React itself. The only extra "boilerplate" is the import loading in ShadCN as a dependency.

Seriously what is going on here? Who is this for?

Hyper may be a great project but this piece is so devoid of content or analyses that I really can't tell.