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ko27 • 04/01/2025 • 3 replies • view on HN

Having the author come out and say that being untyped is a feature, is definitely one way to kill of any potential interest for that framework.

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CharlieDigital • 04/01/2025

For the record, author is not crazy.

Svelte team also switched to JS with JSDoc a few months back[0].

You can see the majority of their repo is JS and not TS[1]

The cited reason[2]:

    > As a Svelte compiler developer, debugging without a build step greatly simplifies compiler development. Previously, debugging was complicated by the fact that we had to debug using the build step. In addition, using JSDoc does not affect compiler’s development safety because the type is almost equivalent to TS.
There was a lot of noise when this happened. Rich Harris (Svelte team) even had a comment on this on HN[3]. Dev sphere similarly thought they were crazy. But Svelte seems fine and no one seems bothered by this now.

As long as author ships type def, it should behave just like a TypeScript library for all intents and purposes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932617

[1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte

[2] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/8569

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250

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tipiirai • 04/01/2025

Author coming out here: Types matter, and Nue’s take is to use them where they truly shine. Adding them to naturally untyped spots like HTML or CSS? That’s just extra weight we can skip.

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joquarky • 04/02/2025

Some people like things that you might not like.