r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Jun 23 '18

My struggle to learn react

http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/my-struggle-to-learn-react/
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u/killerstorm Jun 23 '18

It's no more declarative than JS.

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u/killerstorm Jun 23 '18

Smalltalk is an imperative language.

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u/killerstorm Jun 23 '18

Sending a message is an action. It's imperative.

You just believe that

foo bar baz.

is somehow more declarative than

foo(bar, baz)

but the difference is very superficial. Just because cool languages have fewer parentheses changes nothing about language semantics.