On: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

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My guess is that some learn react et al without ever really learning HTML first.

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That's entirely possible. I've seen a React tutorial that shows a simple example HTML snippet, and comments on it with "We’ll get to the funny XML-like tags soon."

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And then there's jsx, which is different from html in some important ways, and generally a little closer to xml.