The fact that state updates in React are asynchronous is a cancer that is holding humanity back 10,000 years.

Lol that indeeds sounds like a pain in the ass!

technically, what is holding us back, is that react even exists in the first place.

@Lensflare

>do what intuitively feels like a variable assignment

>variable doesn't have the value you assigned available in the next line, it'll only have it after the next render which your state setter call triggers

It's amazing

@nururururu I imagined this exact example when I read your rant 😂