I’m an “old guy” in the software world, old enough to have had to enter code on punch cards and be forced to debug assembly by flipping through a 12-inch-thick fan-fold printout. In my first real job at IBM, one of the programmers I worked with…

I was thinking about how I’d answer one of our interview questions: “What are the benefits of React?” I feel like most of the usual answers here are not relevant.

• “React allows rendering to be pure functions” — true, but is this really a…