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If AI is writing software from now on, to any meaningful degree, React should be absolutely dead. The *only* benefit of React was that most human engineers already knew it. It's the worst choice in literally every other way. If humans aren't writing your code, your code shouldn't be in React.

I agree and I haven't touched React since 2018 or so... But when companies bet on a stack there are other factors like funding, maturity, and longevity. The fact that Meta dogfoods React with billions of users is an argument I've heard many times.

Actually I'd go so far as to say none of the serious alternatives to React are even "bets" at this point. There's no real risk at all in Vue, Svelte, Astro, or plenty of others. Any of these going belly-up and forcing you to migrate is infinitely less likely than React causing perf problems.

I totally agree with you. Only saying that the decision process is often not technical. And in cutthroat environments you hear stuff like: "Not my fault it was a bad decision! That's what everyone else is using!"