Ah, sorry I misunderstood the plugin. But to the point -- people do all kinds of crazy things in all kinds of languages with all kinds of tools. That doesn't mean there's anything fundamentally broken about them. Now that I know about the existence of the Do plugin I can also definitively say I have no use for it. It's a band-aid for bad code, not a bad framework.
> I don't think you really understand how template literals work
I absolutely do. I use them to internationalize my apps. They're a powerful tool that is not comparable to React/JSX. JSX is not just a template engine which is what you seem to be implying.
To be honest, the lack of it existing in javascript aside, statements-as-expressions is a useful thing - no need to remember the semantics of `if {} else {}` vs `? :`, ability to have very complex (multi-line) expressions, and in languages with RAII, blocks being expressions means it's easy and clear to be able to acquire a resource in order to calculate a single value.
> I don't think you really understand how template literals work
I absolutely do. I use them to internationalize my apps. They're a powerful tool that is not comparable to React/JSX. JSX is not just a template engine which is what you seem to be implying.