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but isn't it likely that svelte will undergo the same scope creep eventually?

Far, far less likely. Svelte has undergone some changes, and will continue to do so, but the latest round of change swung heavily in favor of USING THE LANGUAGE. Most of what you write in Svelte, with some notable exceptions, is vanilla JavaScript.

We in the Svelte world love it so much, it seems highly unlikely there will be any drastic switch from what we've all grown to love. (It's truly fantastic, give it a whirl: https://svelte.dev/repl/hello-world?version=3.5.3)

(Side note: I actually clicked on this link hoping Vue was learning a similar lesson, only to be disappointed.)

Hopefully they recognise their niche and stick to it. I'm particularly interested in Svelte for compiling down to vanilla WebComponents to be used in P2P apps (eg Holochain) where you want the end users to be able to modify components themselves.

Sorry, but seems Rich is not too happy with WC', if you want to do use a compiler to vanilla WC's I think stenciljs might be your best option. LitElement is also good - but it is not a compiler. Svelte V3 doesn't even have custom element section documented at all at the time of the writing.

Svelte has supported compiling to custom elements for over a year.

Where are the docs for that?

See the `customElement` and `tag` compile options https://svelte.dev/docs#svelte_compile

Here are the docs from v2 https://v2.svelte.dev/guide#custom-elements

Yes but svelte is on v3 - I'm asking about that.

That first link was to the v3 docs. Here it is again for your convenience: https://svelte.dev/docs#svelte_compile

There is also, Custom element API section that is "TODO". Yes I saw those options the first time, but woulnd't you say the documentation is limited ;) if such is the case.

So far I see 2 sentences related to the subject, compare that to V2 docs.

I will try to see how svelte performs for this, but so far Vue wc-wrapper seems to be the most promising option out of "non-wc first" ecosystems.

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