[charleszw]

I will also say encapsulating everything you just said in a single term, "islands," is a lot simpler and prettier to discuss. At least from my perspective, the naming also makes a lot of sense. Literal islands of interactivity surrounded by an ocean of static.

[efilife]

the naming is backwards then. An island is static, an ocean is not. See how it is a buzzword up to your interpretation?

[aatd86]

now that you say it :o

Should be astro lakes or something.

[mpeg]

Islands is just a catchy name I guess. I always thought the markojs terms for it made sense, but are more technical / less catchy: they called it “full page hydration” -> everything needs to be delivered as js and “component level hydration” -> islands, only specific component sub-trees need to be hydrated.

Then “sub-component level hydration” would be resumability like in qwik where only events and their dependencies get serialised as client js.

[aatd86]

Yeah. Well to their defense, it is probably to be understood as islands of interactivity lost in a sea of static elements. The term is definitely more evocative.

[michaelcampbell]

Like "meteoric rise". Meteors come down, not up.

And yet, we all know what it means. Language is fun.