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I tried to learn something about who or what is behind this language/platform. The mint-lang website is not very revealing. Someone named Szikszai Gusztáv appears to be a core contributor to the GitHub repo.

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A mint dev is on HN; @gdotdesign https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gdotdesign

I know it's pretty amazing that this was created by by a small group of contributors. So many of the languages and tools these days are from enterprise giants like Flutter.

I'm the author and main contributor of the language, let me know if you have any questions, happy to answer :)

So how does it work? Does it use a virtual dom? How is the performance? What about the bundle size?

The answers to those questions should be on your home page.

Also it would be great if you included it here: https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark

Mint uses React as the view layer anything else is done by either the compiler or the runtime(1).

So the bundle size should be around the same as react or smaller (the compiler can output optimized code) and the performance is the same.

[1]https://github.com/mint-lang/mint-runtime

Thanks. I skimmed over the docs but didn't find that mentioned anywhere.

Why not use something faster and smaller than React though like Preact or Inferno?

It is possible, but it turns out they are not a 100% compatible.

Not 100% compatible but much faster and lightweight:

https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

What does the next keyword do? I see it in examples, but couldn't find anything about in the docs (or maybe I overlooked it)

It steps the sate forward, think of it as `this.setState`.

Got it - thanks!

Sorry, totally insubstantial comment, but noticed a typo towards the bottom. s/interopability/interoperability

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