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> it is literally their job to capture the entire thing and whatever else they can capture Their job is to maximize shareholder value, and if attempting to capture the entire thing…

Hey author here. This is a map of Earth that uses NASA imagery[1] to roughly sketch how sea levels could change if all ice melts. Estimates of potential sea level rise vary, with m…

Sure, thank you for the question! It prompted me to add a note about Elm and Dart in a relevant section in the document. One important difference with Svelte versus Elm is that Elm…

Svelte is a component compiler, not a general language compiler. Big distinction! Being purpose-built for this use case opens up a lot of opportunities. The article goes into this …

It's not a comprehensive weighing of alternatives, instead it's a deep dive into Svelte's pros and cons as they relate to my experience and our project. Elm is awesome! There's not…

Thanks for sharing! On point 1, this issue is the one to watch. https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/4518 Language server support will work for both JavaScript and TypeScript …

It's buried in the article, but TypeScript support is being worked on by one of the TypeScript team members in collaboration with the Svelte devs - https://github.com/sveltejs/svel…

I considered linking or footnoting that text and probably should have. Like all surveys, there's a selection bias. For example where are the world's millions of jQuery developers? …

Svelte can do server-rendered and static page generation with the near-zero overhead of string concatenation, and with it you gain the component model. Part of the magic of compile…

Good question, thanks for asking it. I didn't explicitly address this (oops) and I'll have to do some more thinking. My first reaction is that: 1) Svelte gives you a solid foundati…

Author here, just wanted to make a note. This isn't written to hype a battle in the holy war. Frontend frameworks are a positive sum game! Svelte has no monopoly on the compiler pa…

author's tweets about its history - https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1108407803545214977

I'm a JS developer who tried to adopt Reason for a full stack side project in September. There is so much to love about the language and ecosystem. After about a week I decided to …