[swyx]

The release was livestreamed on the Svelte youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72TIVhRtyWE

also

> Svelte 4 reduces the Svelte package size by nearly 75% (10.6 MB down to 2.8 MB), which means less waiting on npm install. This improvement will be especially noticeable for users who are loading our interactive learning experience on learn.svelte.dev for the first time, users of the Svelte REPL, and users with limited connectivity. The majority of the remaining package size is eslint support, which necessitates distributing a CJS build, and once the eslint rewrite is completed the Svelte package size can drop by over another 50%.

[swyx]

fun/weird fact - the major release seems to have caused ~9m downloads happening on npm, catapulting Svelte to technically the top of the charts https://twitter.com/SvelteSociety/status/1671923994671603713...

[csjh]

that's just every developer switching every single one of their side projects to svelte in excitement