Hacker News Reader

> The #1 reason React works for me is that the UI and code are in the same file. It's so easy to go back and refactor changes when everything is right there.

We're bashing VB6 for this exact reason, and now this is cool again?

View on HN

I think its cuz the whole package just works.

Just inlining views into JS wouldn't have been good. But when you add unidirectional data flow, composable components and lots of best practice docs, then you have a system that works really well.

VB6 just worked, too. In many ways, it worked better than the current conglomeration of web-dev technologies that replaced it.

The language was a bit iffy but boy was it productive, we seem to have gone backwards in so many ways.

Which is why as full stack developer across native and web stacks, I try to avoid web projects as much as possible.

The world of JS / web "development". They are just now discovering that type system and compilers have advantages!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com