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#13 Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) is a dramatization. It says everyone using the virtual DOM is stupid for not optimizing their code and still using react. As someone with a lot of equity in react, it is shocking because it invokes a feeling of surprise: "Wow, I must be doing something wrong". The adjective "pure" is overhead. It adds drama, nothing else.

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Their product doesn't use a virtual dom, i.e. to them it IS pure overhead. I agree with you that it is provocative, but it takes a position on a specific thing in the title, not just "Millions of people are stupid"

I don't want to see a bunch of titles that say "The react crowd is mad" which could have been the title

Edit: Reading your other posts here, it seems you can't/won't engage in the difference here.

I didn't intend to insult the AI crowd as in "Millions of people are stupid." (as in e.g. "you, ML engineer are stupid"! I did NOT intend that). But in a stampede or a market mania people don't get hurt because of the individual's stupidity. They get hurt because of herd behavior, and it's tragic. But that's a group dynamic and isn't insulting people individually.

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