[okareaman]

I watched a tutorial by the author Rich Harris today after reading this link on HN earlier and stopped when he started talking about a DSL he created for Svelte so you don't have to write as much JS. I don't want to learn another DSL. I don't see what the big deal is about compiling. We've have many languages that compile to JavaScript and Google Closure Compiler to tree shake and minify. For years now! Svelte is a nifty DSL to JS compiler that produces small bundles because there is no SDK to back it up or include. Cool, I guess.

[overtowed]

Svelte is a component compiler, not a general language compiler. Big distinction! Being purpose-built for this use case opens up a lot of opportunities.

The article goes into this more, but Svelte's DSL is an extension of web languages - not much to learn really! Your existing knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JS transfers directly.