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I think Flutter does a great job of doing UI using objects with zero xml.

I also can't stand JSX. It feels like inverted PHP to me (which I suppose makes sense since it's Facebook)... but I guess it's all just a matter of taste.

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Could you share an example as to why you think JSX feels like inverted PHP? I think it is an interesting perspective.

I think the parent is referring to how you write PHP templates, which are HTML at the top level, but escape to raw PHP code inside particular delimiters (<?php>), whereas for JSX you write JS at the top level and 'escape' (kinda) to HTML in your returned element. Not exactly an inversion, but I can see the connection.

Really just the weird mix of xml and code

PHP is sticking code (php) in html

JSX is sticking xml (html-ish) in code (JavaScript)

Flutter does some job, definitely not great.

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