The Framework wars are over. Why no one dethroned React

Kent reacts to Dax's question on X — why no framework dethroned React — and connects it to Jobs Theory, network effects, and why framework choice matters less when agents write the code.

Chapters

00:00 — Why did nobody dethrone React?
00:24 — Dax's question on X
00:49 — React is the last UI library (2020)
02:47 — Functional first, then social and emotional
03:36 — What made React functionally better
06:43 — Network effects and "nobody got fired for choosing React"
07:38 — Why framework choice matters less with agents
09:27 — Jobs Theory: apply this to everything you ship
11:14 — Wrap-up

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Every few years the internet declares the framework wars over — usually with React as the loser. Svelte was going to win. Then Solid. Vue had its moment. Angular never left. And somehow, after a decade of "React is dead" takes, React is still the default for an absurd amount of real product work.

Kent's take: React won functionally first (state sync, composition, drop-in UI focus), then socially and emotionally once it hit critical mass. Challengers can still be "better" on paper — but once agents can use any capable stack, the throne fight stops mattering the way it used to.

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