I think many people fail to understand how many people choose to do things.
1. Most people are followers. We really don't want to choose, and don't care. So unless we meet some pain point we will choose the most common choice that requires no thinking.
2. People stick with what they know. Unless they meet some pain point. Windows anyone?
3. Sapir-Whorf modified to: "the language determines how easily you can think."
ANY language is an abstraction - with all that means. If one language enables you to think faster or with less effort it wins. Period. Elegance be damned. An interesting experiment: take a complex JSON file and convert it to JSX. Take a different JSX file and convert it to JSON. It is just much easier (for me) to JSX something. My point is how one way of expressing things can make a difference. Nothing about JSX or JSON as I love them both dearly, but about the difference between how easy/hard/effective they are to use.
Perhaps because (ahem) I am used to React, I can look at the code and reduce it to these things:
* a hook
* an array
* a return
* the return has a nested return
And yes, I was forced to learn useSyncExternalStore, so not a fanboy.
1. Most people are followers. We really don't want to choose, and don't care. So unless we meet some pain point we will choose the most common choice that requires no thinking.
2. People stick with what they know. Unless they meet some pain point. Windows anyone?
3. Sapir-Whorf modified to: "the language determines how easily you can think."
ANY language is an abstraction - with all that means. If one language enables you to think faster or with less effort it wins. Period. Elegance be damned. An interesting experiment: take a complex JSON file and convert it to JSX. Take a different JSX file and convert it to JSON. It is just much easier (for me) to JSX something. My point is how one way of expressing things can make a difference. Nothing about JSX or JSON as I love them both dearly, but about the difference between how easy/hard/effective they are to use.
Perhaps because (ahem) I am used to React, I can look at the code and reduce it to these things:
* a hook * an array * a return * the return has a nested return
And yes, I was forced to learn useSyncExternalStore, so not a fanboy.