JSX could be lifted entirely into the editor. You could write R.createElem(F, {}) and then when I open it in Vim, I could see <F />.
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I totally get why people like JSX, but the mysticism around it is pretty silly and makes cross-pollination and understanding more difficult.
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@BrendanEich@AdamRackis@ryanflorence@Rich_Harris Mysticism is furthered by considering it anything other than superficial syntax. -
Nah, the mysticism is precisely treating it as simple sugar, when in practice much of the work of React is squinting at it differently.
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Maybe there's some plans or goals I'm not privy to.
Why am I always the last to be invited into the conspiracy?pic.twitter.com/jZu4JLLZpQ
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This will forever be how I think about, and encourage use of JSX. Anything else including framework compilers is wildly unappealing to me.
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I'm struggling to see yehuda's point myself. What mysticism?
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I like JSX, truly (I implemented E4X back in the day & tamed crazy parts of its spec). Mysticism for me comes from immutability appearances+
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which can deceive. Then
@sebmarkbage trolls me for not making JS be Haskell (premodern version) in 1995! So yes, JSX is just syntax: for JS! - 6 more replies
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