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Svelte will be also the career choice in couple of years, like Angular was the career choice when React launched (although they have only 3 years between them).

culi 4y ago
and before angular was jquery. But I do think there's quite a big difference between React and Angular. Angular never reached the level of marketshare that React has even if it was close. And even when it was close it was only for a few years. React has been the standard for nearly a decade now. And React has been much more explicit about growing its ecosystem whereas Angular has much fewer 3rd party plugins/tools. In addition to all that, Svelte has technically been around since 2016. Even if we cheat and say it only really started getting attention in 2018-2020, it has still been rising slower than Vue did when it launched. In the latest StackOverflow survey (2022), Svelte still hasn't even surpassed the 5% threshold for how many developers have used it. By pretty much every metric,[^0] svelte is a tiny community still. A darling of the web dev community for sure, but has not yet gained the confidence of commercial products. Perhaps this has actually been good for Svelte and its development. It definitely seems like it's heading towards much wider adoption so I guess we'll see it tested soon enough [^0]: https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d2314e190 https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d231...
- pcthrowaway 4y ago
  I'm surprised that 5% of developers have used svelte. That seems like a lot, I was under the impression that webdevs are not the majority of software developers.
  - culi 4y ago
    In 2022: React.js 42.62%, Angular 20.39%, Vue.js 18.82%, Angular.js 8.99%, Svelte 4.58% In 2019: React.js 31.3%, Angular/Angular.js 30.7%, Vue.js 15.2% I'm sure those number skew towards a certain kind of dev. Hopefully this gives you a better idea of how skewed it is. Also note: it's an online survey. Devs of niche frameworks can and often do encourage people to rate their framework higher

culi 4y ago

and before angular was jquery. But I do think there's quite a big difference between React and Angular. Angular never reached the level of marketshare that React has even if it was close. And even when it was close it was only for a few years. React has been the standard for nearly a decade now. And React has been much more explicit about growing its ecosystem whereas Angular has much fewer 3rd party plugins/tools. In addition to all that, Svelte has technically been around since 2016. Even if we cheat and say it only really started getting attention in 2018-2020, it has still been rising slower than Vue did when it launched. In the latest StackOverflow survey (2022), Svelte still hasn't even surpassed the 5% threshold for how many developers have used it. By pretty much every metric,[^0] svelte is a tiny community still. A darling of the web dev community for sure, but has not yet gained the confidence of commercial products. Perhaps this has actually been good for Svelte and its development. It definitely seems like it's heading towards much wider adoption so I guess we'll see it tested soon enough [^0]: https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d2314e190 https://gist.github.com/tkrotoff/b1caa4c3a185629299ec234d231...

pcthrowaway 4y ago
I'm surprised that 5% of developers have used svelte. That seems like a lot, I was under the impression that webdevs are not the majority of software developers.
- culi 4y ago
  In 2022: React.js 42.62%, Angular 20.39%, Vue.js 18.82%, Angular.js 8.99%, Svelte 4.58% In 2019: React.js 31.3%, Angular/Angular.js 30.7%, Vue.js 15.2% I'm sure those number skew towards a certain kind of dev. Hopefully this gives you a better idea of how skewed it is. Also note: it's an online survey. Devs of niche frameworks can and often do encourage people to rate their framework higher