I'm open to the possibility that I'm that wrong in my understanding, but this didn't help me understand any better at all.
The technique does sound similar to me. Both (as I understand it) maintain a representation in memory of the final rendering and use a diff to determine which parts of the rendering to perform. The "virtual DOM" technique isn't strictly tied to a browser DOM, though the term is a reference to that, and React's (in particular) has been adapted to many other rendering targets.
I'd be happy to learn more if you'd be kind enough to explain what I misunderstood.
The technique does sound similar to me. Both (as I understand it) maintain a representation in memory of the final rendering and use a diff to determine which parts of the rendering to perform. The "virtual DOM" technique isn't strictly tied to a browser DOM, though the term is a reference to that, and React's (in particular) has been adapted to many other rendering targets.
I'd be happy to learn more if you'd be kind enough to explain what I misunderstood.