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I’m really curious how my 100kloc enterprise app would work in Svelte, but my hunch is it just wouldn’t be possible to build.

Svelte always seems really cool in these toy examples, but I want to see a significant app built with it instead.

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Yeah that's a common myth. Svelte isn't some fringe alternative JS framework. It performs exactly the same functions and same structure as any React/Vue app, but does so with far less code and runs far faster since it's a compiler.

You're not going to find many brand-name companies using it because the PM decision-makers at large enterprises are always going to be many years behind and going with the "safe" JS framework leader at the time.

Well-known companies currently using Svelte: Apple [1], New York Times [2], Spotify [3] and GoDaddy [4]

1: https://twitter.com/mansur_ashraf/status/1204542852581273600 2: Svelte creator Rich Harris works for them 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/f18n33/companies_... 4: https://svelte.dev

"as any React/Vue app" From my experience, and what I heard from others, a lot of devs prefer React over Vue even though Vue syntax is cleaner and allows for shorter code. React just feels more robust when the app grows large enough compared to Vue. Note that we're not talking only about the library itself and its syntax, but also the ecosystem and support around it.

That being said, I think Svelte -> Vue comparison might be even more imbalanced than Vue -> React.

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