Funny that you mention htm, because developit is Jason, who build Preact, and the author of the article is Marvin, also working on Preact. So I'm pretty sure th

Funny that you mention htm, because developit is Jason, who build Preact, and the author of the article is Marvin, also working on Preact. So I'm pretty sure the author know about what is needed and the alternatives and still sees use cases and just wants faster builds. Just look at the article before about unit tests in 1s. That's where he is coming from.