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@starbreaker >web developers spend years pushing for people to use external stylesheets instead of messy inline styles
>react happens and just lumps html, css, and js all into a giant clusterfuck

@taiz @starbreaker Sometimes we just have to re-invent PHP, especially in the browser.

Craig Maloney ☕ ✅ @craigmaloney

@taiz @starbreaker Like compiling PHP into a client-side PHP.

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@craigmaloney @starbreaker not sure if you’d be able to get widespread support for something like that since everyone likes to shit on php regularly then go back and hail javascript

@taiz No, I mean React is essentially compiled PHP with JavaScript. :)

@craigmaloney ah i see what you mean, but yeah pretty much the same idea