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Comment by jaredcwhite | Hacker News Reader

This article was great…up until the very end when it failed to mention any alternatives to React that already exist.

"Alpert, who helped chart React’s rise, doesn’t see an alternative emerging anytime soon."

This is completely ridiculous. Vue, Svelte, LitElement / Web Components, to name but a few. Maddening to see this level of journalistic malpractice.

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Is it really that maddening? This response feels much too political. There are things worth getting mad about, and then there are JavaScript frameworks.

Also, why does everything have to be so radicalized? "Journalistic malpractice"? It's hard to have earnest discourse in 2020 for this reason. People often push everything to the extreme immediately.

Pushing debate to extremes is as old as humanity. I don't see any evidence to suggest that it's gotten worse recently (certain countries recent political increase in extremism notwithstanding).

(Sophie Alpert here.) What I meant is it’s not clear the next thing that will _replace_ React.

Certainly there are plenty of great alternatives, each with their own pros and cons – but at this point, none clearly poised to “take over”.

I appreciate the clarification Sophie. :) Sometimes quotes just don't come through well in translation in finished articles.

The writing could be improved, but to me it's clear that the previous paragraph is providing the context for this statement: they're talking about alternatives to using frameworks that provide a higher level of abstraction. Not alternatives to React itself.

I could see that interpretation. It's not very clear to me though…

"journalistic malpractice" - he's merely passing on the sentiment of the main subject of the piece.

There are alternatives to React indeed, but those you mentioned are conceptually very different.

Vue has also JSX as optional for the template system. you can see react as a subset of Vue.

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