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A lot of people praise Mithril for its small file size and speed, but one of its greatest and perhaps most overlooked advantages is its small learning curve. You only really need to understand two things to get started: what a component is (a plain JS object with controller and view), and when a redraw happens (once on m.mount, and once after every event handler).

Why is a low learning curve important? Several reasons. If you're a developer, it's not a huge investment to learn (how difficult was it to learn backbone / angular / ember?). If you're a startup / company, you don't need to look for X developers, where X is a difficult-to-pick-up JavaScript framework. You also save money by having a shorter on-boarding period for those non-X developers.

I've worked in a hackathon group that picked Mithril up and created amazing results with it right away. I teach at a coding school, and by far Mithril has been the easiest JS framework for my students to learn and work with. For being so powerful, Mithril is quite easy to get started with – and that means a lot.