I believe jorgebucaran (hyperapp author) was aware of mithril.js' existence and may possibly have been inspired by it, but I don't take credit for hyperscript i

I believe jorgebucaran (hyperapp author) was aware of mithril.js' existence and may possibly have been inspired by it, but I don't take credit for hyperscript itself (it was already a concept used by various other systems - the word "hyperscript" itself comes from the name of a project[0], and there were already other similar frameworks like mercury[1] at the time). For mithril.js specifically, the hyperscript variation offers an extra feature that AFAIK not many other libs do: the ability to write emmett-like CSS expressions as the tag name (e.g. `m('input.required[type=password]')`). Totally understandable if you think that's too much sugar for your lib, but I've found it handy for usage with CSS frameworks like bootstrap. Mithril.js users also appreciate it and some interesting unexpected patterns came out of that (e.g. `const Foo = '.some.tailwind.thing'; <Foo />`) BTW, funny story: mithril.js partially took inspiration from an ancient library called dōmo[2] which - as it turns out - uses the tags-as-functions pattern. [0] https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript https://github.com/hyperhype/hyperscript [1] https://github.com/Raynos/mercury https://github.com/Raynos/mercury [2] https://jed.github.io/domo/ https://jed.github.io/domo/