(Should have written "DSL-based" not "macro-based" On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 1:55:19 PM UTC-6, Conrad Barski wrote: > On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 5:27:12 AM UTC-6, Nikita Prokopov wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > cool work, > > > > Just wondering, why in todomvc you rely so heavily onto #js literals, and > > prefer dsl-like syntax (dom/...) instead of some declarative markup like > > hiccup? Is it because of performance reasons? > > > > Thanks! > > I'm not David, but I'm guessing "performance reasons" is the answer. The > React library relies on member functions to render html (React.DOM.div, > React.DOM.input, etc) so this maps more efficiently onto a macro-based html > rendering solution, as opposed to one based purely on EDN (like hiccup). Note > that the approach used by Om is common in the Common Lisp & Scheme worlds > (since those languages don't have clean map & vector literals like Clojure, > the hiccup approach is more awkward in those languages.) > > The #js literals can forwarded directly to the React.js library and are > therefore also very efficient.
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