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Interpreters are considered elegant, too. For example, Lua is a great little language and it runs everywhere precisely because it's interpreted.

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Sure, there are many elegant interpreters. I'm not sure that patching DOM from the changes in a redundant data structure is one of them. Even Blink's idea to instead pull browser's own DOM into Javascript definitely looks saner to me.

It's not a redundant data structure if you need it to figure out the necessary changes.

You are free to choose other approaches for your frontend projects. Just don't expect to get hired into larger teams easily.

> It's not a redundant data structure if you need it to figure out the necessary changes.

And why exactly can't you "figure out the necessary changes" without it?

> Just don't expect to get hired into larger teams easily.

Honestly, I see that as a win-win.

Seeing how much you like trolling, that is not a surprise.

Sincerely held opinions are by definition not "trolling". I just fail to see that as relevant, just as I fail to see the number of Big Macs being sold globally as being relevant to food choice criteria.

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