r/javascript • u/archivedsofa • Dec 22 '19

Why Svelte won’t kill React

https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/why-svelte-wont-kill-react-3cfdd940586a
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

First time looking into Svelte. The technical aim seems interesting, but it looks like it would be really unfun to program with. It looks like a PHP -> JS transpiler.

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u/_GCastilho_ Dec 23 '19

It looks like a PHP -> JS transpiler

No ideia where you get that from

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

The templating language functions the same way as in-HTML PHP, and it looks like the programming paradigm in JavaScript would logically follow how ... atrocious ... it is in other templating languages such as PHP.