Calling the VDOM pure overhead is a strong statement when there are patterns that are more difficult to express in Svelte because of how it manages views. Once

Calling the VDOM pure overhead is a strong statement when there are patterns that are more difficult to express in Svelte because of how it manages views. Once a view is created, it can't be processed by JS. It can't be stored in an array or an object. You can't count or individually wrap children. This makes it harder to create flexible API's [1]. The question is: are we willing to give up the expressivity of React for extra performance? I am leaning towards "no", because I believe React's performance issues mainly come from its memoization-based reactivity model rather than the VDOM. When applying `.useMemo` in the right places I can create perfectly performant apps. However, this requires profiling and is often unintuitive. [1]: for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990947 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33990947