Thanks for the write up - it's a very succinct explanation of how Angular works in comparison.
I found the original article to be a really good read, and the Svelte approach in general seems rather neat. I do however find that in this current front-end framework sphere, there seems to be a huge amount of religiosity and one-upping going on.
I hear routinely (on-line and off) developers vocalising some anti-[jQuery,angular,etc.] mantra, which to be honest saddens me. Yes the jQuery approach was flawed in so many ways in comparison to the modern frameworks. Yes Angular 1.x was flawed in many ways compared to what we have on offer today. But those tools were still great improvements on what we had before (for anyone who knew the DOM-API standardisation nightmares pre-jQuery, or state management / testability woes pre angular/react).
Svelte may take us down the next path, and if it allows us to produce better, smaller, more testable code then it has my full backing. But I think as a community we need to strive to be less polarising - from my perspective its likely to be mostly reductive, and lead to even more JavaScript fatigue.
I would guess this is partly because the modern front-end framework leaderboard is a zero-sum game: you can't possibly be sane to use two or more different frameworks for most of your day-to-day work. Maybe you have one for work and one for hobby development, but that's about it. I'd be torn to remember quirks of both React and Vue, for example.
And thus you see it in discussions that people feel the need to pull one down to put their preferred one on the top. We know what happens to a library without a critical mass of adopters: they lose contributors, which in turn reduces the rate of growth, and in turn, the quality of the library over time.
Which is kinda sad. A lot of work goes into these frameworks that I really respect. There's no logical rule that says these new ideas completely succeed their precedents. I wonder what needs to be done to get us over that JS fatigue.
I found the original article to be a really good read, and the Svelte approach in general seems rather neat. I do however find that in this current front-end framework sphere, there seems to be a huge amount of religiosity and one-upping going on.
I hear routinely (on-line and off) developers vocalising some anti-[jQuery,angular,etc.] mantra, which to be honest saddens me. Yes the jQuery approach was flawed in so many ways in comparison to the modern frameworks. Yes Angular 1.x was flawed in many ways compared to what we have on offer today. But those tools were still great improvements on what we had before (for anyone who knew the DOM-API standardisation nightmares pre-jQuery, or state management / testability woes pre angular/react).
Svelte may take us down the next path, and if it allows us to produce better, smaller, more testable code then it has my full backing. But I think as a community we need to strive to be less polarising - from my perspective its likely to be mostly reductive, and lead to even more JavaScript fatigue.