> React looks cleaner. It reads better at first glance. But that readability comes at a cost: you're trading explicit simplicity for abstraction complexity.
Not always, SolidJS code can look the same as React code, but what goes under the hood is very simple and straightforward.
It's very sad this is what's happening. React hooks was a major innovation but a very bad one, people in the front-end world seem to value more about radical innovation and marketing buzzwords like "functional UI" (which is not true) than truly evaluating a system. The earliest momentum started from trend chasing, also a lot of people use React because they see the JSX looks pretty nice in the examples.
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