[leppr]

That's the tutorial challenge code, you get the `svelte:component` solution after clicking "Show me".

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte-component

But yea that's indeed what I should have done in my example if I wanted the component to be reactive, as you can see that's even more verbose and still doesn't take care of props.

[xrd]

I love this thread!

And, isn't it likely this will be easier to support with Svelte eventually? My reasoning is that you just need to add a little syntactic sugar to the language and the compiler can add whatever code is necessary? With a runtime like React and Vue, it seems much harder to add in.

[leppr]

It's think it's likely the two issues I highlighted will eventually have syntactic sugar, I never wrote a transpiler but it doesn't seem that hard to support. It doesn't appear to be a priority though.

> With a runtime like React and Vue, it seems much harder to add in.

As a rule of thumb, it's almost always easier to add things at runtime than at compile time. That's why it took us so long to get Rust.