I think retiring Sapper was the right decision. I have a feeling Rollup will meet a similar end too.
They both seemed like fine pieces of software. They just don't seem offer separate much their counterparts nowadays that warrants continued feature development.
Rollup isn't going anywhere! When you poke behind the scenes of newer build tools, like Snowpack and Vite and the custom compiler that powers Remix Run, you'll find Rollup doing a lot of the heavy lifting. And it's the preferred choice of most libraries. There's a reason for that :)
The project hasn't really been publicly released yet. The repository is still private. The package is up on npm, but isn't ready for widespread adoption yet. I'd recommend sticking with Sapper for now.
I am not sure I buy into all the svelte hype, and even if claims about it's speed/build size are true - the difference isn't enough to outweigh the enormous advantage vue has in terms of a more mature ecosystem/tooling.
Could be. Angular growth has stalled for the past year or so. Polymer is pretty much dead.
OTOH hand why would Google invest in a React-based solution? Google could start from scratch an create the next best thing if they wanted to. To me it's pretty clear the future is a compiler based approach like Svelte, with support for SSR, partial hydration, static generation, and dynamically loading smaller parts of a page (eg: AJAX + hydration). All with a kickass DX.
If Google wanted to takeover React, the solution is at the browser level. Fix rendering and state management with native language built ins, and voila, we are out of the stupid frontend hell.
Wtf is hydration? Is that like when websites used to render json payloads on the page on first render?
This field is getting scammy with its nonsense. Create one more stupid word, and I swear I will lose my god damn mind.
