I didn't really get why he thinks Elm is better than React. Can someone shine a light here?
I never used Elm and a only dabbled with React a while ago but I remember having a very confusing feeling about React. When I read the introduction and basic ideas everything "clicked" and sounded obviously correct but when I went ahead to try to use it the library was much larger and complex than I would have expected. I suspect that the sizeable complexity might have to do with supporting stateful subcomponents that can be redrawn independently (as opposed to a system with a single tree that gets redrawn every time) or with their promise to support server-side HTML generation. Does anyone know if this is actually the case? How does Elm compare? Does it also allow stateful subcomponents?
I never used Elm and a only dabbled with React a while ago but I remember having a very confusing feeling about React. When I read the introduction and basic ideas everything "clicked" and sounded obviously correct but when I went ahead to try to use it the library was much larger and complex than I would have expected. I suspect that the sizeable complexity might have to do with supporting stateful subcomponents that can be redrawn independently (as opposed to a system with a single tree that gets redrawn every time) or with their promise to support server-side HTML generation. Does anyone know if this is actually the case? How does Elm compare? Does it also allow stateful subcomponents?