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> a wonderful job incorporating actual CS concepts like algebraic effects into their framework.

What does "actual CS concepts" event mean? This is the first time in my life that I've heard about algebraic effects.

If I am understanding your comments, the implication seems to be react is implementing concepts that elevate the tool while vue goes around in circles to make an alternative syntax.

I don't even agree that the react team has done a good job with implementing a clear concept for their framework. Things like Elm have done a much better job of that. Granted that's a lot easier to do when they don't have to force themselves to deal with js directly.

But even then, why is react implementing hooks not bad, but vue implementing them is? There's a reason why react made the switch, and some of those advantages also apply in vue. These changes aren't just made to follow trends.

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There's been an unfortunate trend in the JS world where a lot of frameworks are created, but without any real meaningful sense of progress, resulting in a sense of going around in cycles in various "reskins" with different syntax and conventions, all round some kind of core MVC idea.

When I say "actual CS concepts" I mean things that have been broken down into it's core using a suitable mathematical model. This is ultimately a much more suitable way bo build tools used by engineers.

My personal concerns is that Vue to me is mostly just a reskin with new syntax on things that are already in React. Hooks become the "composition api". Redux becomes VueX. Is this necessary?

Could VueX just have been an alternative to Redux, like MobX is?

Could we just have implemented a Webpack-loader to put styles and react components together?

Some people don't like that React uses `className` instead of class. Is `v-bind:class` and various `@` notations really so much better we can justify a whole new ecosystem?

So roughly - Vue provides fragmentation in the frontend ecosystem. I like competition - but what does it really offer that justifies it? I don't get it, and now what they have been working on is just catching up to React.

Well, I started with Angular and couldn't make any sense of it. It had two versions with huge differences between them and React offered a more concise path for learning.

But I found JSX hard to read and there was no consensus on how to write CSS and some people were saying that it was ok to use inline styling. WTF? The web design community have been telling me the opposite for years!

Then I started working with Vue and everything fallen in place: no deprecated lifecycles, CSS into style tag and easy to read markup with no Array.map() returning HTML tags.

Fragmentation is bad, but is nice to have a balanced option between extremes.

The hook that got me started on Vue was being able to straight swap with a previous two way dom binding library (rivets.js) and continue from there, I've found Vue to be incredibly easy to pick up, and very productive now I'm up to speed.

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