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fny on June 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I like Svelte more than React (it's store manageme...

My only gripe with Svelte is that it’s not JavaScript.

There’s an arcane layer of $yntax to mediate and a lot of flexibility and intuition is lost as a result.

__s on June 1, 2025 | [–]

You should look at solid-js in that case, tho it uses custom jsx transform

voby.js looks neat

efilife on June 1, 2025 | [–]

It wasn't like this before. Try Svelte 4

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