On: Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

[valenterry]

Let's assume so. What's important though: If it had to be completely written again from scratch today, would it be done in C?

[commonlisp94 → valenterry]

I don't know, but this point is already refuted:

> there can never be real progress ...

> without having a programming language that is powerful enough

Historically there have been plenty of interesting powerful languages on the periphery, but most of the useful stuff is not written with them.

[enono → valenterry]

no, it would obviously be written in ocaml