scy on Nostr: Hot take: Reactivity, as it currently exists in JavaScript frontends, is a nice idea, ...

Hot take: Reactivity, as it currently exists in JavaScript frontends, is a nice idea, but can't be executed properly with what JavaScript currently is as a language.

Frameworks that try to work around these limitations always have edge cases that don't fully work, and they depend on a lot of slow behind-the-scenes magic to do their job. Non-trivial things also quickly become too hard for devs to build correctly.

As long as reactivity isn't a first-class citizen in JS, it's not worth doing.