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Polymer and React are orthogonal, here is a great comment explaining the difference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7739755

I'm intrigued by your statement. When I read the word "orthogonal" I'm thinking of two key concepts:

* No functionality overlap in primitives

* Composability of primitives

How do Polymer and React as primitives fulfil said properties ? There's certain overlap in functionality. Composability is not guaranteed.

Did you mean to convey a different idea by "orthogonal" ?