[egeozcan]

I'm also a TL (which makes me a teaspoon here in Germany, which I like more than the tech lead title). I understand how the development can be faster with Svelte, but ecosystem argument really hits home. You'd get to 80% with Svelte perhaps much faster than React, but that missing library for, say, drag-and-drop makes that last 20% itself plus "hey let's develop our own drag-and-drop library in-house which should be easy and opinionated and maybe it gets open-sourced" (it will be hard, with crazy high budget, as it will try to cover many use-cases you will never have and it still won't be open-sourced because now it's your "core competency" and five months later someone will realize your component has terrible a11y and etc. and one million bug fixes later it is a monster code-base that none wants to touch and maybe rewrite? oh here we go again).

[nophunphil]

All excellent points. Yes, the package ecosystem has been a pain point.

We’ve turned this into a slight positive by pushing the business to allow us to make open source contributions. The developers seem to enjoy this a lot, and hopefully our work helps others in the space.

[youssefabdelm]

Someone needs to invent a way to import React/Vue/Angular packages to Svelte and still use Svelte syntax somehow. Sounds crazy but I wonder if even remotely possible.

[eatonphil]

What is a teaspoon?

[tux1968]

TL – Teelöffel (teaspoon, unit of measurement)

[frosted-flakes]

TL is the abbreviation for the unit teaspoon in German, the way ts is the abbreviation for teaspoon in English.

[wyclif]

Yeah, I also didn't get the 'teaspoon' reference.

[WorldMaker]

German word for teaspoon per googling it on the bing: Teelöffel

Seems like the obvious abbreviation for that is TL, so it's a joke on cross-language abbreviation collision.