My daytime job isn't primarily programming anymore, and frontend development has never even been my job. I used to do embedded and backend development, and am n

My daytime job isn't primarily programming anymore, and frontend development has never even been my job. I used to do embedded and backend development, and am now in more of a ops/architect/automation consultant (freelance). I still need to code on a regular basis, and Go and Python are my go-to languages these days. On a regular basis, I encounter the need for a GUI for some API or backend I write, so I tried to get into a more modern Javascript eco system. I have created websites and even full-on forum software in a long forgotten past, so I have some basic old-school webdev and basic Javascript knowledge (from back when directly manipulating the DOM was still the way to go). So take this as a bit of an outsider look on things, who is confronted with full-time Javascript developers on a daily basis. When I started looking into react, vue, ... it always overwhelmed me. Whatever I started doing, according to someone, it's bad practice and should just do Y instead of X. Nobody seems to agree on best practices, and there seems to be a whole lot of 'magic' going on in all those frameworks, and knowing where to start is an absolute mess. It's confusing as hell. Now I quickly went through the tutorial and examples on the Svelte site and it felt pretty simple, I can reason with how it works behind the scenes, and can read the generated Javascript to verify that that's really what's going on. It makes the whole thing seem more manageable in my head. As far as "the new exciting one" goes - what appeals most to me personally is its simplicity. One of the reasons Go also appealed to me. It was exciting for a while, but ended up being the boring 'it just works' solution which completely replaced C and C++ in my life (that's not a jab at these languages, they have their uses, I just don't need them anymore)