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[verdverm]

Opinionated enough that you have to learn their bespoke language WASP

[hot_gril → verdverm]

Wasp generates code. It's a bit odd how even with such a big layer of indirection, you only have one choice of backend language. Though I'm personally happy with JS and want to give this a try.

[matijash → hot_gril]

Wasp is actually being developed with a vision of being stack agnostic. Currently, it's only React/Node, but we've already been playing with Python and Rust internally.

[hot_gril → matijash]

Ah, I missed that from the FAQ at the bottom.

[hot_town → verdverm]

Wasp is as easy as learning to write JSON when you already know JS.

[herbst → hot_town]

Doing JS and JSON for many years. But react based frameworks are still are mystery for me and break everything I love about HTTP and HTML.

Calling it as easy as JSON for JS dev sounds a bit stretched. For a react Dev maybe.

[verdverm → hot_town]

They problem is in the translation and control. There's also extra tooling and steps in the build process to be maintained.

[leros → verdverm]

Yeah that's a bit much.

[reactordev → leros]

Opinionated enough that you have to learn their bespoke language React

People learn what they are eager to

[hot_gril → reactordev]

Part of what makes React's JSX so nice is that it's based on familiar things, HTML and JS. Like, regular HTML <div> etc works the same there.

[verdverm → hot_gril]

I agree, JSX (and also MDX) are a really great paradigm