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React Won by Default – And It's Killing Frontend Innovation

Exploring how React’s dominance by default stifles frontend innovation, and why deliberate framework choices lead to better tools for performance, developer experience, and ecosystem diversity.

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A lot of arguments in here can be equally applied to how we feel about Elixir’s adoption on the backend as well. The same hiring, technical arguments are front and center. Just to digress a little.

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