I actually really like that. It's playing some devious games behind the scenes with getters and setters that React makes clearer with useState hook, but I think I could get used to it.

I do like JSX, but also the idea of skipping the extra compilation layer. I wrote a similar Java HTML library, a while ago, but such things never caught on. It still seems better to me than templates. If you're not gonna use JSX, let your type checker do the work.

I don't see an equivalent of useEffect, so I'd have to see how well it works with side-effect type things. There's something coming in version 1.0, and that could really make this work.

I'll have to give it a try the next time I've got a pet project. Thanks.