Node.js is now on version 20, and Node 16 was stil active as of this time last year. Is it unstable?
literally spending 2 seconds reading the Svelte 4 release makes it clear that its a maintenance release. you could've done that instead of typing all this.
v16 had maintenance + development for 2+ years. Seems pretty good for an ecosystem that has a reputation of breaking changes across minor npm packages.
I use svelte for some side projects, I want to adopt it where I've worked in the past but it's very hard to win mindshare against arguments about stability and support. And honestly? Those arguments are very valid, that's why I asked if these types of hype posts actually hurt adoption. It was a question, this is a forum.
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As an aside I'm very disappointed with your reply attacking my education level.
You don't remember me but I met you at React Boston 2018 and complimented your talk. If this is how you talk to people online that are nobodies, I don't know what to say... except thanks for showing me your true colors.
Hopefully you're just having a moment of stinginess and this isn't who you actually are.
thanks for remembering me, and no i didnt attack your education level, i was just very tired of people having lazy superficial reactions to version changes and making up a non-story. i shouldve also pointed out that the active version of React went from React 16->17->18 in the span of 2 years without people raising this kind of comment so its basically a double standard. anyway i see where you're coming from so I apologize.
I wasn't trying to diss Svelte at all with my comment, my question is very sincere. I use Svelte for a few local apps on my home network (board game and a music playlist selectors) but I have a very hard time convincing people starting new projects to consider it. That's why I tried to pose it as a question because I don't really know how to argue against it.
Svelte 3 was released 4 years ago. Svelte 4 had VERY few breaking changes, and those were in obscure corner cases.
Four years in the JavaScript ecosystem denotes a very stable API. 99.9% of all Svelte 3 projects would likely need no code changes at all moving to v4, at least that's been my experience.
literally spending 2 seconds reading the Svelte 4 release makes it clear that its a maintenance release. you could've done that instead of typing all this.