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Came to ask this.

React and Vue aren't exactly known for their performance and Svelte does compile time optimizations.

Heh, not an argument against you or any point you made, today you are right. But when React first made an appearance, basically the two big selling points was 1) use same state in multiple places and 2) better performance.

Fun how with time, the core purpose of a library ever so slightly change :)

I mean, that was a decade ago and back in the day the only reasonable contenders were Angular and maaaaybe ExtJS.

Backbone.js, Knockout.js, Ember, Dojo, Prototype, YUI all were reasonable alternatives at the time. Although all with their own warts and highlights, as is tradition.

Was React really faster than Prototype? Anyway today it is one of the slowest: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2026/chrom...

As far as I remember, in some cases yes. I remember when it initially launched, the typical demo was a list of 10K items or something, and the speaker (maybe Pete Hunt?) demonstrated the amount of time it took to add/remove items from that list, and how without the Virtual DOM, there was a lot of trashing (or something), and with the vdom, things got a lot faster.

I think this was back in 2013-2014 sometime though, so I might be misremembering, it's over a decade ago after all.

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