[afavour]

I think that's actually the core of the problem. It's the right choice for big projects. But Svelte was an absolute joy to use when brewing up a small or medium size project that you want to just work first time.

Runes are the right choice for the library, but there is still a loss there.

[biker142541]

Not sure I agree. I’ve built numerous small projects in Svelte 3 & 4, sharing that same joy many of us had! Stores were generally amazing.

I was highly skeptical of runes upon the original announcement and very cursory usage during beta phase.

When I finally got to porting a couple simple projects, I shrugged “this isn’t too bad, but what’s all the fuss?”. I ported a mid size project and it really clicked.

Then I went to build a brand new small project, and I found myself in love with runes. Having spent the time to get under the hood (especially using them as classes), being able to leverage them during the design phase really sped me up and facilitated cleaner/better state management.