There is a huge usability gain, you don't need to know any javascript to make something new and useful with tiddlywiki. I made most of my earlier plugins that I still use before I knew any javascript. If it were just a neat javascript page that you used javascript to make things in than I never would have played with it. The reusability and simplicity of widgets is amazing, wikitext abstracts out a lot of the overhead to give only the parts that are specifically useful. Yes there are things that are missing but that isn't a downside of the approach, that just means we aren't done making everything yet. Also there are huge gains in security, I would never put Bob online if it had inline javascript like tiddlywiki classic.
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