Comment by josephg

Thanks for your work on react. I just realised who I’m talking to sweats. I agree that the functional reactive model is a very different programming model than VB6. We all owe a lot to react, even though I personally don’t use the react library itself any more. But it does seem a pity to me how many sloppy, bloated websites out there are built on top of react. And how SwiftUI and others seem to be trying to copy react rather than copy its newer, younger siblings which had a chance to learn from some of react’s choices and iterate on them.

UI libraries aside, I’d really love to see the same reactive programming pattern applied to a compiler. Done well, I’m convinced we should be able to implement sub-millisecond patching of a binary as I chance my code.