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Looking at the Github commits I’d say neither statement is true? Seems to be plenty of contributors that have contributed recently:

https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/commits/master

It just had a major release :P any faster and people would be complaining about churn !

What makes you say it looks paused? There’s been a very steady stream of releases since the big 3.0 launch last spring. There’s certainly more than one active contributor, although the core team is just a few people.

By "regular" programming do you mean JavaScript?

p.s. Svelte is great, and I can't wait to start working more actively with it.