alt Hacker Newssvelte is far far superior to this. Instead of the verbose JSX or whatever that weird syntax is called, you literally write plain HTML in svelte and feels absolutely natural to do so
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division_by_0 • 04/23/2025
Yes, it feels super natural, which is actually a good way to describe Svelte's overall DX. Part of the reason it feels so natural in relation to HTML is that Svelte treats it as "The Mother Language". [0]
ivanjermakov • 04/23/2025
Btw, you can use Solid without JSX and any build steps: https://www.solidjs.com/guides/getting-started#buildless-opt...
Funny. To me JSX is a much superior language compared to HTML templating. And I would say it's provably so. You can do JSX-in-JS-in-JSX recursively in a way that is "natural" and "safe" and "maintainable". And with TypeScript you get great IDE support, ability to refactor and whatnot.
No need to trust my word, just look at the huge amount of code in JSX that the world is maintaining at the moment.
I would say the only problem is the performance cost that we have to pay for this - the shadow DOM and (as a result) the hooks mess that we have in React. But it feels more like a problem that needs to be solved in order to use the much superior way of writing code (JSX). Not the other way around (sacrifice JSX for performance)
And I get that it can be overwhelming if you still haven't made the "jump", it just doesn't sound fair to criticize something that you don't understand.