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Speaking as nearly-exclusively a JSX/TSX user, it is not really true that it is closer to HTML than Svelte's templating. People who like and use Svelte report the opposite.

Agree with this. Iterating with Array.map and returning nodes to compose, say, unordered lists in JSX is most decidedly un-HTML-like.

I can see the drawback to learning yet another templating language, and on this point I’d just say “to each their own”. I feel like either approach is fine. Svelte’s templating is pretty minimal, so there isn’t much to learn.

I don’t get why you’d want to try to emulate html. The syntax and closing tags are brutal on the eyes. I’d prefer a more lisp style syntax for representing html

the template "language" is learnable in 10mn and fit in a small cheat sheet. I personally think JSX as a template language make HTML horrifying to read

IMO Svelte feels much more like HTML than JSX does.