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> and sound like "we couldn't figure out how to make it work for us so it must be impossible".

It sounded more just like "we couldn't figure out how to make it work for us", which is a perfectly plausible position.

The author just stated that React didn't work for them, not that it's "impossible to use React" as you are implying.

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> I guess this level of strictness and purity is something that may be useful when you have 1000 devs in your company [...] But most of companies have far smaller dev teams and other goals than Facebook.



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Fair enough, but if they're going to write about their opinions and argue that "JSX sucks", they should at least be intimately familiar with it. Choosing lack of conditionals as the issue to focus on instead of any other problems templating in React has tells me that they're not.

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