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The svelte approach of implementing better paradigms using compilation rather than using abstractions just seems infinitely better, and a better way to scale up
by beaconstudios 6y ago
The svelte approach of implementing better paradigms using compilation rather than using abstractions just seems infinitely better, and a better way to scale up a program in general. I do wonder why this idea never caught on; I think Alan Kay was investigating building a programming platform based on this idea but that's just academic.
- amelius 6y agoIt's kind of funny that a NYT graphic designer (Rich Harris) outsmarted so many CS academics in finding the right software engineering tools.
- beaconstudios 6y agoExperts seem to suffer so often from myopia. Sometimes all it takes is a fresh perspective to glean a new idea.
- raihansaputra 6y agoI think it's an academics vs practitioners thing. Rich is willing and can use Svelte and Svelte/kit in actual production workloads in NYT. Kind of similar in how most Rails abstractions are pulled out from Basecamp's implementation. Doesn't hurt that Rails HEAD is directly used (in % deploy) by Shopify etc too.
- preommr 6y agoBecause these tools were made in a time where people were using libraries like jquery. People were building js apps by including libraries directly in the header. Before webpack, and even gulp, when having a build process was a novel thing in web dev.