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I grew tired of Svelte after it introduced too much "magic". Svelte used to be simple, now it's Vue that feels simple (and yet powerful), and Vue has a much bigger ecosystem in terms of plugins, etc.
I'm on a project now that requires using Svelte in an enterprise setting. I've used all the big 3 (Angular, React, Vue) and then some (Ember, AngularJS) and I can say without a doubt, Svelte is my least favorite of them all by far. To say it has encouraged designing an unreadable mess in the code-base is an understatement. It seems to have taken the worst aspects of the big 3 and ran with it. I'm utterly confused why…
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Javascript is not a language that is good for making basic comprehensive abstractions in. Typescript is not a language that is good for making basic comprehensive abstractions in. JSX is not a language that is good for making basic comprehensive abstractions in.
This is quite a large set of things to hand wave away with no additional justification. Makes it sound more like personal bias than meaningful insight
For writing a web server library, like oak or flask or etc etc:
First, resources own the methods, methods don't own the resources, so the path comes first, easy enough, its just a string with potentially placeholders whose values need to be shunted down the line
Next is the method, for some reason a lot of libraries like to hardcode these? Immediately jumping away from comprehensive, unless you have a language that makes identifier-like things possible, e.g. symbols in ruby, or `__getattr__` in python, or proxies in javascript, of the 3, proxies are probably the most cumbersome in implementation.
then the request handling, that is fine for all languages
Templating is more of a bother: Either you use JSX, which in most cases is not XML, but instead DOM, subtle but a pain, additionally requires a compilation step before you can run the code, and also requires a DOM or DOM-lite library. Or you do chained calls with an ending call, e.g. https://sonnet.js.org/, or you do something like lit-html which is quite practical. You can't do something like title("hi") vs title({attr:123}, "hi"), as everything is an object and {} are objects, so you need to have fixed function signatures unless you want to have a lot of bother in implementing things. This is all less of a problem in other languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Raku)
In short, Javascript does not flex when you push on it, that is great for a lot of tasks, but not so much for building frameworks where instead of having systematic ways of extending the language, either tricks are used which break other things down the line ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45472119 ), or you have opinionated narrow frameworks, which results in more churn as instead of frameworks, its more, frame-specific-use-cases.
Is this just summarizing findings from a 2022 paper? (2022 paper https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/a301a02... )
The fact this is already outdated by more recent Svelte releases which changed things drastically is exactly my problem with the modern JS space. So fast moving and most of it is still doing JQuery like reactivity. I am probably just not smart enough to get it, but it reminds me of the constant seemingly pointless rewrites I see in companies. Figure out what works and keep it, is that so hard? Why can other languages…
Made me just give up on web development.
I think React has an at least somewhat reasonable track record in terms of backwards compatibility? Still not perfect but much better than all the other frameworks.
Svelte is definitely still my favorite way to build web apps in 2025. I wasn't (and still am not) the biggest fan of the new Runes syntax, but I've gotten used to it, and it doesn't really hurt my productivity or get in my way that much. There's definitely an ecosystem gap compared to React, but there are still lots of really good components and frameworks out there. For example, there's a native Svelte version of IB…
Of note - Svelte publishes documents specifically intended for LLM consumption, https://svelte.dev/docs/llms Making my LLM aware of these documents significantly mitigated issues I had with adopting Svelte 5 syntax.
The fact this is already outdated by more recent Svelte releases which changed things drastically is exactly my problem with the modern JS space. So fast moving and most of it is still doing JQuery like reactivity. I am probably just not smart enough to get it, but it reminds me of the constant seemingly pointless rewrites I see in companies. Figure out what works and keep it, is that so hard? Why can other languages…
The reason the web changes so fast, and there are so many rewrites, is the same reason a puzzle whose pieces don't fit together keeps getting shifted around and restarted. People are looking for a satisfying non-leaky abstraction to build upon and they don't find it with web technologies. They get close, but those last few pieces never quite fit, and we lack the power to reshape the pieces, so we tear out all the pie…
Would be interesting if they compared also other WASM frameworks. Obligatory: sad state of web where React is so popular.
It is not that popular anymore, tho. At least there is no hype, it is just a bureaucratic soulless tool used by many. The posts about the new React Foundation have almost no engagement here in HN. 5 years ago it would be a huge discussion. Now nobody cares.
Kind of sad to see a 2022 paper about svelete with extremely questionable benchmarks get upvoted so much vs all the great things that came out of react conf yesterday.
Svelte is definitely still my favorite way to build web apps in 2025. I wasn't (and still am not) the biggest fan of the new Runes syntax, but I've gotten used to it, and it doesn't really hurt my productivity or get in my way that much. There's definitely an ecosystem gap compared to React, but there are still lots of really good components and frameworks out there. For example, there's a native Svelte version of IB…
Of note - Svelte publishes documents specifically intended for LLM consumption, https://svelte.dev/docs/llms Making my LLM aware of these documents significantly mitigated issues I had with adopting Svelte 5 syntax.
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I feel like CPUs have gotten a ton faster while bundle sizes have gotten larger and mobile networks still have a ton of latency, so network matters more in the scheme of things.
Would love to hear other perspectives, though!