<story><title>ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS</title><url>http://componentkit.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_s</author><text>This technology looks great.&lt;p&gt;It is too bad Facebook doesn&amp;#x27;t have their own platform like iOS or Android. It&amp;#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really. Them creating a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs is very helpful, but even better would be if that was not necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eddieplan9</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;But without the &amp;quot;messy&amp;quot; imperative API, the functional UI cannot be built. This applies to all functional UI frameworks.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny that one of React&amp;#x27;s core ideas is to ditch the now old functional&amp;#x2F;declarative paradigm that is template languages and allows you to use imperative JavaScript to directly build up a virtual DOM.</text></comment>
<story><title>ComponentKit by Facebook: A React-Inspired View Framework for iOS</title><url>http://componentkit.org</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_s</author><text>This technology looks great.&lt;p&gt;It is too bad Facebook doesn&amp;#x27;t have their own platform like iOS or Android. It&amp;#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really. Them creating a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs is very helpful, but even better would be if that was not necessary.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cgcardona</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s becoming pretty clear that they have a much better handle on UI technology than Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone really.&lt;p&gt;Can you explain what you&amp;#x27;re thinking here? In what way(s) specifically? Thanks.</text></comment>