Comment by ikety
19 days ago
What about Elm? I think most people could grasp the elm architecture in an afternoon. To me this MVU style is pretty much perfect for UI.
I think a lot of the time React appears complex and hacky is because we tried to solve world hunger with one component. I've worked on plenty of React projects that were very easy to scale, modify and iterate because they focused so heavily on small independent stateless components.
Elm is awesome until you try to use it in an actual app. The amount of pain we went through trying to make a basic web app with a sidebar and a few pages... I don't remember the specifics, it was a few years ago, but I don't think Elm has changed much since then (it was 0.18).