Hi! Yes, I was excited when React came out because it demonstrated that I wasn't the only one who felt that these problems hadn't been fully solved yet (though a part of me thought 'well I may as well give up now...'),

Yes, you could draw the Tangle comparison, though I think there's probably a fair amount of overlap - a couple of the Ractive examples are recreations of React/Angular demonstrations.

Looking forward to spending some more time with the React source code to try and learn your secrets!