[ethanwillis]

Right - you can NOT tell me that a sufficiently simple application using React is easier to reason about than HTMX. I've had to deal with a simple React codebase and it is a nightmare.

They don't address the exact same markets.

[chatmasta]

Yeah… one of them addresses a market populated by hundreds of thousands of developers with extensive professional experience in the framework, and the other addresses a niche of Python developers who refused to learn JavaScript until somebody hid it from them and called it hypermedia.

[bdangubic]

100’s of thousands used to use php too :) most developers (roughly 97.56% are terrible/incompetent so going with the herd should tell you you are on the wrong train :)