Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
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Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#2Woah as a Svelte user I'm super happy and this is going to change everything.
I can only speculate as to the reasons behind this decision by Vercel. Why Svelte and not Preact for example?
In any case, congrats Rich!
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#3This 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 few weeks most of the focus has been on the Rust backend but I'm really looking forward to building out more of the UI soon.
I've also been happy to find that its generated code is pretty readable. On one little performance-tuning side quest, I was profiling to figure out why the app was performing a Layout on every video frame, and I was able to step through the compiled Svelte component code and narrow it down to one of my own functions. I also briefly went down a path of trying to manually set the text content on an element, to see if it'd be faster than letting Svelte do it. Turned out the answer was no, but it was nice to know that level of control is available if I need it some day.
Excited to see where the Svelte community goes from here!
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#4It'd be more fun if I could do it in something that wasn't in Javascript or one of its Frankenstein cousins.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#5Svelte is fucking awesome.
Long way to go to catch up to React, but it'll get there. No brainer.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#6Great news for everyone using Svelte - a good move by Vercel and wish Rich gets more resources and freedom to continue the refinement of Svelte.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#7svelte + deno should be the perfect combination for the next age of web development.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#8Svelte is fucking awesome. Long way to go to catch up to React, but it'll get there. No brainer.
Yes, it is good. In many ways I hope it doesn’t catch up to React - it’s running a different journey which I also prefer.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#9It'd be more fun if I could do it in something that wasn't in Javascript or one of its Frankenstein cousins.
You can!
Elm is interesting, though it's developer is a bit polarizing
Also there are a host of nascent Rust/WASM frameworks starting to pop up. They really like the tree puns. There is Yew, Sycamore and Seed.
Re: Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time
#10We changed the url from https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-welcomes-rich-harris-creator-... to Rich's own post.
There were two other submissions - one to an interview (Svelte Creator Rich Harris: Web development should be more fun - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189209) and the other to this Twitter link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29189467). I've merged those threads into the current submission because it was posted first.