Comment by cribbles

These "what ifs" are kinda funny because the origins of JSX can be traced back to Facebook's XHP[1], which took explicit inspiration from E4X[2], an early JS standard that looked and behaved similar to the library described here.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2010/02/09/developer-tools/xhp-a-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML