React is a Javascript based web development programming language developed by Facebook to make pages run faster and better. I learned it as part of a MERN stack full web development course.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

to make pages run faster and better.

Huh, well that's a funny way of saying "break the model of web page as document and fuck up the entire web!"

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah because documents are limiting and we want to do stuff that executables can do but with a better distribution model.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shoulda been something more like Java Web Start.

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe. But performance, availability, and security killed a number of viable options. Flash was always more ubiquitous than Java on the web but it eventually died too.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn't, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn't rely on being embedded in HTML (I'm specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW -- they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

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