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Wow, what a gracious reply. Best of luck to you both!

Indeed, i have no intention of marginalizing the excellent engineering that Leo has put into Mithril, it is a solid lib and if it "clicks" for you then by all means use it.

I would be delighted if my projects had a positive effect on a Mithril rewrite. I originally wanted to improve Mithril but alas it was not architecturally possible without large BC breakage and alienating the existing userbase.

Actually, as a proof of concept I wrote an adapter for domvm that allows Mithril's link rotator demo to work unmodified: https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm/tree/master/demos/mithril-...

In the end everything in software is an iteration of something else.

It goes both ways. I never expected that Mithril would inspire new projects, and I've come to really appreciate the great insights that come from these projects. At the end of day, we all want better software, and having more hands on deck (even if each person is doing their own thing) is a net positive in my opinion. JS fatigue critics can say all they want, but this is how innovation happens :)

You're a classy guy, Leo.

You're the kind of programmer I aspire to be like and be surrounded with.

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