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There's a beautiful symmetry between s-expressions and XML which is why it's not really all that annoying to work with once you approach it as an s-expression.

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Working with Clojurescript and Reagent (or Hiccup) has ruined JSX for me. It's so verbose and absurdly hard to work with relatively.

Why is JSX so much more verbose? The end tags?

It's primarily the end tags, yes, but there's also the className shorthand in reagent that's nice.

[div.btn.blue.p-4 {:disabled true} "Button Text"]

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