React

It boggles my mind why anyone would willingly choose to write apps in this language in 2025.

I don’t want to think about rendering cycles or where I’m calling functions from.

I just want to write JavaScript.

Five more hours of my life debugging a React-related issue that I'II never get back 🫠

You’re telling me if I want to conditionally render stuff that relies on state from a Provider, I have to break out the entire subtree into a `useMemo` expression to prevent the Provider from resetting its state whenever an unrelated component randomly decides to re-render??

Make it make sense 🤡

/frontend dev (HTML/CSS)・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・contributor /ethglobal /walletbeat・hackathon bounty hunter・music maker・dropout・nomad・25

Isn't that supposed to happen? If the parent component re-renders then all its children will also.

Frontend

Why React needs a compiler; specifically, how its current “reactivity” model is un-performant by default and any attempts to optimize by hand completely muddy JavaScript semantics and developer intent. (38:14 – 44:35)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKcetuFoYU0&t=2294s

Yes and no. I intended one thing, but because of stupid architectural decisions outside of my control, I am being forced to rewrite the same thing in a different way and wasting hours in the process.

Theo explained this very well:

Yes and no. I intended one thing, but because of stupid architectural decisions outside of my control, I am being forced to rewrite the same thing in a different way and wasting hours in the process.

Theo explained this very well:

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x72ae1b0a