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There are dozens of us. Dozens!

Not sure why you're downvoted, because your post is true. Svelte's satisfaction score is kinda worthless, if it is used by a fraction of the number of people using React or Angular. For what it's worth, most of them are probably fanboys. There are simply not enough people to be dissatisfied with it.

Interest is another thing, but interest alone doesn't mean much.

React had a fraction of the people using Angular back in the day. Give it time. Svelte is where the puck is moving.

Sure, that is a possibility and I would love this. But for 2020 and the survey in general: satisfaction is a skewed metric. Take it with a grain of salt.

Agreed - it's not a given. that's the point - the puck /isn't there yet/. But if you were going to pick the next thing after Backbone, Angular and React, Svelte is your best bet.

I picked Linux when everyone used Solaris.

I picked Python when everyone used Perl.

I picked node when everyone used PHP.

I picked virtual DOM frameworks when everyone used Angular and Backbone.

Feeling confident picking Svelte.

No it won't. Svelte is untestable.

This is a nonsense claim. We don't provide an 'officially sanctioned' way to test components because we think that unit testing components is usually a waste of time. But Svelte is no less testable than any other framework

Some people don’t like fun here but I’m not deterred. (:

Personally, I love Svelte and am using it everyday (for at least a year). I hope to share V2 of the social network In building with it here soon.

You’re joking, but Svelte’s Discord channel has quite a lot of people and is very active :)

I would recommend anyone interested in Svelte to check out this channel, people are really nice and helpful there.

Link?

https://svelte.dev/chat

Thanks.

Haha, I love Svelte! I’ve been using it for at least a year, it’s my favorite JS framework.

Svelte channel on discord currently has 1714 users. Folks are very helpful there!

Maybe back in 2016 - Ractive, Rich's prior framework (that inspired Vue in many ways) had a few users that checked out Svelte. The compiler concept was pretty new and before Svelte 3 it changed a lot.

But now it's pretty common to be using or considering Svelte amongst the same folk that were the first to try Backbone, Angular and React back when they were the new framework of the day.

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