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.NET Framework 3.0 was initially released November 21st, 2006. React.js was initially released May 29th, 2013.

There were 2381 days between differentiating between various binding types in WPF (which include one way, both OneWay and OneWayToSource) and React's release. There were 2378 days between React's release and today.

So it took React longer to copy one way bindings from WPF than it took this project to "copy" React.

Too bad you didn't make this comment on Thursday.

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If moxie brings anything new to the table, it’s only because I copied liberally and shamelessly from React and other successful and interesting projects, learning and improving on them in the process. If it doesn’t bring anything new, then it’s because I copied liberally and shamelessly from successful and interesting projects :P.

I’m flattered to be compared to long standing paradigms I’ve had in mind (and others I am learning of now) while working on this.

I'm really only commenting on the idea that wpf doesn't have one way binding. People saying dumb stuff on the internet makes me mad. Personal failing. Like that was added in 2006. That feature was coreleased with Windows Vista and IE7. Google had just bought YouTube for $1.65bn and people were incredulous about such a stupid decision on Google's part. One way binding in wpf was released to the public three months after jQuery. It's a year older than silverlight, which is significant because silverlight just took everything that wpf was and said, "what if we could make web pages this way?" Arguably without silverlight the react folks never ask, "what if silverlight wasn't completely shitty?"

I'm not really qualified to compare wpf to react or moxie.

Second, liberally copying the best parts of other things and leaving the crappy parts behind is bringing something new to the table. Don't sell yourself short.

Can you point me to a good introduction (document, blog post, video) to the way WPF does this? I'm actually quite interested in the older systems, especially because a lot of them come from a place where massive complexity is not seen as a good thing.

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