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... and React Native copied the declarative approach of React, which copied WPF, which copied ... (no, we're definitely not the first ones to do declarative UIs here in 2023).

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React definitely did not copy WPF. It copied XHP: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction which was another Facebook thing, but that itself was inspired by E4X: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML

oh, its from wpf maybe thats why gearon interest in react that much because he have c# background

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