The example is also unrepresentative of anything meaningful.

The example is also unrepresentative of anything meaningful. TodoMVC[0] is the classic point of comparison, and the Backbone version is a nightmare to grok compared to React[2]. Who wants to maintain this nightmare? https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/ba... Devs love to invoke Chesterton's fence but somehow forget about it when looking back on "the good old days." What's worse, there were never good old days for frontend. It always sucked, and now it still sucks--just far less. [0]: https://todomvc.com/ [1]: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/ba... [2]: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/tree/gh-pages/examples/re...

Posted by fny on Oct 25, 2025, 6:52 PM

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