alt Hacker NewsFrom what I recall, they nuked the ergonomics/what made Svelte great with the runes api (Svelte 4?) and most people begrudgingly switched over to React, because, why not at that point.
From what I recall, they nuked the ergonomics/what made Svelte great with the runes api (Svelte 4?) and most people begrudgingly switched over to React, because, why not at that point.
Runes got introduced with svelte 5 and they address some problems that really bite when your components become complex and just weren’t solvable in the old paradigm. I think svelte is still very ergonomic to use. Having to write $state() when declaring reactive variables is not a big deal and neither is writing $effect instead of $:. I think the real reason the hype has waned a little is a combination of time, LLMs really liking React and generally absorbing any spare attention.