Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time

Post by dceddia » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 10:14 PM UTC

vgel wrote: post #276

dceddia wrote: post #3

This seems like a huge positive step forward for Svelte and the community. Big congrats to Rich! I've been excited about Svelte for a while and recently chose to use it as the UI for a cross-platform video editing app ( https://getrecut.com ), with the back end in Rust. I've found it a pleasure to work with -- Svelte Stores and the Context system are especially great for sharing state, and the app feels snappy. Last…

Do you have a mailing list I can toss my email on for when this is available on Linux? Honestly I was ready to buy it instantly before I saw the platform limitation, but it would be even better if it could run some basic filters like removing pops and de-essing, which I always struggle to get working right in Audacity (I have a screenshot saved of my filter curve because Audacity doesn't save it, it's so stupid).

Post by cphoover » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 10:17 PM UTC

crummy wrote: post #277

I have a stupid question: The cool thing about Svelte is that it compiles your code in a way so that when variables change, bindings in HTML change, but only that HTML and not an entire DOM re-render. (Right?) So, if this is the case, how come React couldn't do the same thing? They'd lose the ability to just include react in a script file, but why can't a smart compiler look at your JSX and throw out the virtual DOM…

Post by diegof79 » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 10:19 PM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #256

cphoover wrote: post #231

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What how can you say that??? {myItems.map({id, title}) => {title} } vs... svelte {#each myItems as item} {item.title} {/each} One is literally just javascript and html the other is an entirely different template language. You might say... JSX is not HTML... well it's very very similar... If you know HTML you JSX is very intuitive.

Objectively, the Svelte example is cleaner and easier to read.

    const a = 

   const a = factory('div', {prop: expression()}) 

Post by spoils19 » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #296

mikewhy wrote: post #221

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> Frontend developers like to change frameworks every week it seems like This sentiment is so old and played out.

Agree, and it’s nice to see this worn-out trope getting downvoted for once. Sneering at JS / Frontend developers is one of the more distasteful tendencies of HN.

Post by dceddia » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

protonimitate wrote: post #59

gnrlst wrote: post #48

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I see your app is MacOS only at the moment. Are you re-writing it in Electron or what? Very curious

Also curious - I'm spinning up a small side project with Rust and Svelte. Was looking in Tauri as a replacement for Electron but wondering what other approaches people have worked with (assuming this is a cross platform desktop app, that is).