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		TranquilMarmot on Nov 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full ti... Also true. It just seems like `class` has become a bit of a dirty word, at least the last two places that I've worked on React codebases.

phist_mcgee on Nov 14, 2021 [–]

I agree it has. I think this is because hooks have been talked about by facebook as the future of react. There seems to be no appetite for class based react improvements in the future. No wonder people move to the thing that will be better supported, regardless what it is.

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