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Why does it matter in the least that its js? That's the beauty of react. It abstracts the ui from the renderer. Its the reason cool things like this can be built. I for one enjoy being able to build interfaces on a common platform for a multitude of application types.

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You seem to be implying that you have very excellent cross-platform reuse of code. Please tell me more.

Even better, a unified skill set in the developer pool. Which is very valuable and productive.

Is this really that valuable? Java and C++ had both provided this to some extent before. Rather, I think the majority of the power in Javascript tools comes from distribution. The distribution to both potential users and potential developers is unmatched, and those trump any technical deficiency in the language.

I think if programming language designers should have learned anything in the past 50 years, it should be, "It's the distribution!"

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