There are a lot of projects for which I think JQuery would have been a better fit than React but React still handles those well enough.
My criterion for thinking JQuery would have been better is when the app ends up being divided into multiple virtual pages with very little shared state, especially when most users aren't going to use multiple pages consecutively. (Now I think about it: every React app I've been paid to work on has been like this)
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@screwtape @dougmerritt @eduardoochs

screwtape> in languages that handle PARSE-INTEGERable strings /such as #javascript (#Kitten)/ is the equivalence (sometimes) of "1" and 1 an example of defeasible inheritance?

I don't know what defeasible inheritance is, but in JavaScript way too often this is a pain.
People even get into the habit of always writing things like (+x) instead of x...
I think this has already been elaborated.

@vnikolov @dougmerritt
in languages that handle PARSE-INTEGERable strings /such as #javascript (#Kitten)/ is the equivalence (sometimes) of "1" and 1 an example of defeasible inheritance?
In that
c = a - b
if c is 2 and a is 3, b might be a positive integer 1, or it might be a string "1" in js. #programming #types #defeasibleInheritance

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@screwtape

Right: you see that it took exchanging a couple of messages before I grokked it.
(I should have made the JavaScript specification "my constant study", to borrow Oscar Wilde's phrase.)

The kitten example you just quoted isn't exactly a prince of clarity, either...
This kind of programming is actually very expensive, tempting though it may be.

Last I heard, JavaScript doesn't have dynamic scope, but don't take my word for it.

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@screwtape

P.S. My (non-authoritative) reading of the specification is that JavaScript tagged templates (function calls of backquote-delimited forms) can _only_ be _literals_ and can't be constructed at runtime.
Therefore I would definitely avoid an explicit call to `eval' in the lisp translation and just arrange for the placeholder expressions to be in for-evaluation positions.

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#EvalOnlyWhenJustified
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