mark k.

@Eugene Kopich, obviously not. A sign of maturity is the ability to reflect on your past mistakes and try to avoid doing them again. Wordpress was burned with the decision of using backbone, a library which the usage off resulted in an unmaintainable unreadable code. Selecting React/preact or vue is likely to end up the same as JS libraries are getting in and out fashion faster then woman cloths.

There are two JS libraries used in wordpress that work well, tinymce and jquery. The first is because it is actively maintained by a company which has a core interest in maintaining it, and the second is because it is relatively simple.

For react, preact and Vue, there is no reason to believe they will be around in 5 years, and it is obviously better to have something that is of lesser quality but you can iterate on at your own pace. But obviously the great core thinkers prefer to switch libraries in 5 years over having their fate in their own hands. Oh wait, no one is going to convert now the backbone mess into a modern library so expect in 5 years to end up with a gutenberg no one can maintain, just like the media library now.

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