Reddit design ditching React in favor of Lit for mostly performance reasons

To echo the first post,

> wonder how much of the performance boost is the React to Lit transition itself, and how much of it is them re-architecting or re-writing parts of the frontend logic as they transition. Is Lit just out of the box faster than React?

React isn't inherently that bad. The team just seemed to have built an absurdly unperformamt system. The data architecture was trash. The app slowly loaded then spent multiple seconds loading a couple KB of text data. That wasn't a React problem at all!

Hopefully the web app becomes usable again. Hopefully they actually really build for high power users too; iirc the react app doesn't support categories at all, which is essential for me to navigate the hundreds of /r/'s I'm on.

I had no idea lit was mainstream. I started using it a couple of months ago, and, as a back-end developer, it was pretty simple to set up get started.