[manigandham]

Shipping the runtime as a compressed file is only a few hundred kilobytes right now, which is smaller than many JS payloads. That's before any optimizations which are far easier to do in statically compiled languages and binary files like WASM. I expect the overall payload size to be far lower than an equivalent app in React.

The current JS frontend frameworks are great but they all require a tremendous amount of work to get going for any complex application. The tooling, build chains, libraries, boilerplate code and general verbosity of JS really needs a cleanup and Blazor is incredibly attractive in that regard.