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by xrd 2294 days ago
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.

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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.