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I say this as a long time Svelte fan, and maintained some libraries for past 7 years: I really don't like the DX of "runes". What I liked about Svelte was the two way and automatic reactivity, clever computed values prefixed with $:, etc. The code looked simple and clean.

I know there's very good reasons for the changes, but it feels so similar to React (and even hooks) now that I don't see any big positives to using Svelte vs just using React. Sorry Rich.

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> The code looked simple and clean

I feel the same way, but after watching a couple of the videos Rich has put out I thought the main driver for the change were the “gotchas”. I have not done production Svelte development so I never really dealt with any of that. Given you’re background, are the caveats/pitfalls he mentions not common to your projects or do you just view the critique as newby problems?

Yes, I've not run into these, even though I know they are possibilities (like with any framework). Simple webapps doing webapp-things always seem fine for the performance and any gotchas.

Keep in mind there is a large performance gap between them.

Yes, but performance for my normal needs were already quite fine.

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