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Great. I was waiting for React to stabilize before I learned it.

I've been cleverly waiting since 2006 to learn jquery. Will start next year.

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> Great. I was waiting for React to stabilize before I learned it.

But once it's stable, it's outdated.

It's been stable for more than a year now.

Best practices will come out in 2025!

Not sure if serious, but this update swaps out the internals without affecting users/developers, the API is fully backwards compatible

No API changes doesn't mean that your code will work 100% as it was before.

It's actually not. There are some lifecycle changes, potential modifications to setState (async only), etc. That's why it's being released as a new major version.

I think we may be splitting hairs over the definition of API compatibility

it's one of those 99% compatible except for a few small quirks that only developers using it on large applications will notice.

The React devs have also been great with releasing codemods for breaking APIs.

setState is not async-only in React 16. We keep the old behavior and just change the engine now. Later we will look into enabling new behavior.

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