Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@optshiftk all abstractions are a trade off. retained mode paradigms typically wasteful of eng time-to-correct-impl; immediate mode of perf" / Twitter

I can’t wait for Apple to fix the shit show that is the mobile web: github.com/reddit/reddit-

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Curious that “consider React might be a wasteful paradigm” is not on the recommendation list. github.com/reddit/reddit- (via

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all abstractions are a trade off. retained mode paradigms typically wasteful of eng time-to-correct-impl; immediate mode of perf

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Are you referring to React as an immediate-mode paradigm?

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key API is render() which is an immediate mode description of UI

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yes

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That seems backwards to me—retained mode APIs build abstractions atop immediate. But if that’s common terminology, *shrug*.

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