> When I first saw React.js, I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framework in JavaScript.
So smug that it's hard to take seriously.
Especially when even Apple is switching to SwiftUI, something that is the opposite of Cocoa and more similar to React.
Though I wonder how someone with both Cocoa and React experience looks at React and goes "Oh, it's the old-school Cocoa way of doing things!"
This blog post reminds me of HN four years ago when everyone had their little smug epithet about Javascript and web developers, those idiots who are too amateur to see the beauty of Cocoa and winforms or whatever most of us are happy to swap with something better.
So smug that it's hard to take seriously.
Especially when even Apple is switching to SwiftUI, something that is the opposite of Cocoa and more similar to React.
Though I wonder how someone with both Cocoa and React experience looks at React and goes "Oh, it's the old-school Cocoa way of doing things!"
This blog post reminds me of HN four years ago when everyone had their little smug epithet about Javascript and web developers, those idiots who are too amateur to see the beauty of Cocoa and winforms or whatever most of us are happy to swap with something better.