Why “Svelte” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Seems like a separate issue? I also wouldn't assume that. Svelte is faster and smaller than React, even with all the training data in the world there are still non-negotiables.
by afavour · Oct 2, 2026
The real strength of React is that each component is a function which is an easier mental model than the spaghetti code Svelte componets turn into with special syntax which isn'…
by wg0 · Oct 2, 2026
Thanks for all your hard work! We've almost exclusively used Svelte / sk for our client work at Niftic for years now. Excited to dig in on v3
by cfowles · Oct 2, 2026
I just prompted Opus 5.5 to build a 5e character sheet tracker from the SRD (which I extracted an MD file from previously) and it got everything working with 20% of the session!…
by twoquestions · Oct 2, 2026
Ironically, given the chatter in this thread, I'd say this is a problem very solvable by LLMs. The Svelte language is well defined, the JetBrains API is well defined. No reason…
by afavour · Oct 2, 2026
Vanilla css/js are not really that voluminous. Actually, they tend to be smaller than the compiled targets you get from conventional web dev builds. I’m not really sure tha…
by weitendorf · Oct 2, 2026
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Svelte is a free and open-source component-based front-end software framework and language created by Rich Harris and maintained by the Svelte core team. Read more on Wikipedia