> You can respect that developers you respect are humans who make mistakes and misunderstand things
No I can't.
Seriously, it was a joke, he's my best friend, but I guess I misunderstood his claim or he misunderstood render props!
From what I can see reviewing Vue's 2.x docs, they seem to have had this "slots" idea for a while. I get a little bit ill from looking at that syntax though so I think I'll refrain from arguing about the library again!