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by proyb2 3448 days ago
Meanwhile, you can download and try the sample code. https://github.com/sveltejs

I spent a few days testing and it was an eye opener, compare to the numbers of >100 outstanding issues filed in React, Angular, etc which may probably never fix it for some reason and complexity.

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Something tells me, should svelt get to the number of stars that React and Angular have, you'll see a similar number of issues.
At a minimum, it's a bad comparison metric. It's like with any software rewrite: the first 80% is the easy part. It's when you get down to the fine details of handling specific edge cases that things get really complicated. (Seeing this in a rewrite I've been working on myself.)

Semi-similarly, there's three reasons why React (and other libs) have that many issues: they've been around for a while, they're very popular, and the wide variety of usages has led to a number of edge cases being found. Svelte, being new, hasn't run into any of those things yet. Things like style of development can also affect things - some communities might file more issues than others.

We need a robust testing system to reduce bugs, improve performance and do some recommendation where code quality can be simplify or better security. I believe not many community can affordable the time to write testing, even expertise skived and problem appear at compile time.