[swyx]

> From what I remember they even once had a virtual DOM-replacing Ahead of Time compiler, but walked back on it for some reason.

nope, its still there, just is less complicated than you make it sound with those adjectives in front of "compiler"

in the days of svelte 3 vs vue 2, i'd say the authoring experience was a lot more straightforward as vue had constraints around being a drop in framework. but then vue 3 came with "script setup" and other svelte inspired improvements that brought it a lot closer to svelte. am a bit uncomfortable with the 2->3 churn in the vue ecosystem (https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1482778158537801728) but havent actually tested it out since

[solarkraft]

But Reactivity Transform is gone, isn't it? Isn't that what pre-compiled the reactivity and obsoleted the virtual DOM?