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And after all these years, those people surrendered and started to stick to mandatory closing tags when React was introduced, proving XHTML was right. How amusing.



> And after all these years, those people surrendered and started to stick to mandatory closing tags when React was introduced, proving XHTML was right.

I would argue HTML has been way more successful than React and thus XHTML hasn't been proven right.


JSX requires a build though, it's easier to enforce syntax when a missing character will just work while writing it. There are no JSX errors at runtime for this reason.


Yes, because everybody has willingly surrendered to the horrors of React hegemony




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