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FINALLY. What took so long? Seemed like we're long overdo for a big syntax change to take up engineering time with no real gain.

I should have never left C.

> with no real gain

Did you read the linked motivations?

Nobody cares what the motivations are if they can’t update their code base without thousands of hours of work.

This new API is additive and not a breaking change, much like React's addition of hooks.

I did but with no mentions of tradeoffs.

I get your sarcasm, and agree for the most part, but there are some benefits like TS support.