Can we please talk about how much reactive programming sucks for UIs?
I miss all the people who switched from angular to react for a reason in these discussions... I'd bet none of those are going to move to svelte.
I switched from Angular to React 8 years ago, and I've no interest in Svelte. If I recall correctly the primary problem with Angular was $watch, race conditions, etc, meanwhile with React your state is your state, purely functional and idempotent, which is a feature of "reactive programming". Reactive programming is fantastic.
Yes, please do talk about how reactive programming sucks. Because I've come to believe it's absolutely mandatory for keeping an advanced UI performant, mostly bug-free, and limited in technical debt. Absolutely mandatory. And yet I agree: it sucks. It sucks donkey balls. Why does this absolutely critical technology suck so much?