alt Hacker NewsWhat we need is not templating. What we need is a native implementation of a virtual dom.
More specifically, a native implementation of the "patch" function:
patch(target_dom_node, virtual_dom)
Most of the "slowness" of the DOM come from its requirement to be a 90's era Java style object hierarchy.
Don't call it "templating". Just call it "virtual dom". Everyone knows what that means.
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silverwind • today at 6:52 AM
Virtual DOM is a useless abstraction, there are numerous libs that perform fine without it.
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sethaurus • today at 2:59 AM
Other than quibbling over the word "template", how does that differ from what TFA is describing?
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A native virtual DOM implementation would also drastically reduce memory overhead since browser engines could optimize diffing algorithms at the C++ level instead of requiring megabytes of JavaScript framework code to be downloaded, parsed and executed on every page load.