Thanks for your reply Dominic. As an end user, what should compel me to use Inferno for any production purposes? Bearing in mind React has the support of multiple billion dollar companies, several targets (web, native mobile/desktop, console) and a community of what is sure to be tens if not hundreds of thousands of developers. I just don't see the benefit of incremental improvements when they're not being integrated into that community. You lose all the benefit. I have no doubt Inferno is faster, but I suspect you're being disingenuous when you say all the same features are available.
The trouble I have is not specific to Inferno, but rather the idea that less and new is better. Eventually, your users will want something that Inferno doesn't offer, and eventually it will be implemented. And this will happen more than once, probably to the point where your library, too, is 45kb. So is all this work and fragmentation and confusion and comparing of benchmarks really worth it? I think not, unless the technology stands to bring something vastly different to the table.
The trouble with competing with React in its own space right now, stems from the vast amount of resources many of companies are putting behind it. You just can't make a Inferno Native, etc. I think we'd be much better off all working together on new ideas, not rehashing innovation in order to win benchmark tests.
All that said, I applaud the effort, as I'm sure this took a lot.
You don't need to necessarily use Inferno in production all at all. If you're happy with React, stick with it. Inferno can serve to help other authors and the React team to further improve their tools. This is open source after all, we can all learn and improve from one another and make even better software.
Personally, I was actually looking for an alternative to react some time ago, on the grounds of that "BSD License" + "Patents" that facebook has got on it. From what I know no, nothing has happened yet, but for peace of mind, having an alternative would help.
FYI, What I found was preactjs which is a 3kb with most new es6 features of react which I've started using in my project. Unfortunately, I haven't found an alternative to react-native yet.
The trouble I have is not specific to Inferno, but rather the idea that less and new is better. Eventually, your users will want something that Inferno doesn't offer, and eventually it will be implemented. And this will happen more than once, probably to the point where your library, too, is 45kb. So is all this work and fragmentation and confusion and comparing of benchmarks really worth it? I think not, unless the technology stands to bring something vastly different to the table.
The trouble with competing with React in its own space right now, stems from the vast amount of resources many of companies are putting behind it. You just can't make a Inferno Native, etc. I think we'd be much better off all working together on new ideas, not rehashing innovation in order to win benchmark tests.
All that said, I applaud the effort, as I'm sure this took a lot.