> More like trying to explain to people who have only done imperative programming (and that also in JS of all languages) why a render function was necessary.
replyIt doesn't seem all that different from doing your rendering in the WM_PAINT handler, which was already how things were done in the ancient Win32 API (although it's possible [0] to draw outside WM_PAINT).
[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdi/drawing-...
As a web developer in 2014 when I first heard about react, I had never heard about WM_PAINT as I was not a Win32 developer.
replyThe web root is a document platform. Every major GUI library have a “paint” or “draw” function you have to overload for custom widgets. And there is always mostly two kind of widgets: actual visible components and others that are responsible for layouts.
replyYeah, there's a lot of people who have either forgotten or never knew that the context React came into was a world full of JQuery and AngularJS two-way bindings. I started my internet touching career having to work on that stuff, and boy, so much of it was a nightmare that just got endless workarounds heaped on top for basic performance issues, let alone other complications.
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