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how much of the point of react/elm etc is that they bring CS theory to front end web programming and so make it cool & masculine again
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(as opposed to kludging a bunch of jquery together, which a) anyone can do and b) is more about design than code)
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also: one of my new hobbyhorses is making the point that not all programming involves servers, HTTP, browsers etc. that's why i added "web"