Svelte(kit) renewed my love for web development. It gets out of the way when i want it to, is build on web standards so i'm not stuck on annoying "gotchas", and has all the tools I need to build something without pulling in 20 dependencies just to build a basic app.
After being a skeptic of svelte 5, its fully captured me.
The direction React/NextJS has taken modern web development is a modern day abomination. I say this as a passionate fullstack developer whos worked for YC startups and a fortune 10 company within the past decade. I appreciate Vercel as a company too; I have no hate towards them but the NextJS 13 release almost made me quit web development.
Svelte is an absolute love language to the web and a direction for healing the damage caused by modern "web frameworks". It's the absolute direction we need to head in.
Here's something beautiful. I'm teaching my brother-in-law programming to get a job when he's out of the military. He's learning JS/CSS/HTML and doing quite well. With about a 2 minute tutorial of how Svelte works; he was able to start creating some pretty impressive projects. A day later because he already knew the basics of how the web works, he was in Sveltekit building fullstack apps -_-.
For a weekend/side project that needs db and storage, why would I spend days correctly setting up, securing, and provisioning all my infra when I could just pay a little extra and never worry about it?
When creating a new project I wear all hats. Project management, UX/UI designing, Frontend, Backend, Infra, User testing, security.
Having to maintain multiple projects that all bring income in as a solo developer wearing all the hats is very time consuming, this is an absolute godsend and I'll pay for the DX happily.
Honestly though, the original comment was just a plea for more competition to drive innovation it seems.
Most of the data scientists I've worked with are programmer hobbyists as well. We've used Javascript/Python/Go/R. Maybe this will exist for people in that demographic, those who are data scientists that already are solid in programming.
This is an extremely sad sellout and a poor and obvious effort to monopolize. The fact we all know whats coming is a sign Adobe should not exist as a company anymore with the way they can treat end users/products and still get away with it.
I'm sure the people at Sketch are currently throwing a party that can be seen halfway across the world though.
I wish this company succeeded with its mission, but it turned into a variant of Hackerrank I feel. I hate leetcode/hackerrank type interviews. On the hiring side of things where the company I work for screens candidates this way; it sucks. I would have loved to see a test of more practical programming experience.
Candidates spend their time on stupid coding questions all day instead of actually coding something useful or that they can learn from. I have a relative doing exactly this. No idea how to build a simple RESTful API, yet spends all his time on Hackerrank posting on linkedIn how he's in the top 'X' percent.
When they get hired and put on a "real world" project they are absolutely lost :(.
I also tried Triplebyte after seeing ads on Reddit. Passed a few tests and nothing really ever came of it other than an email.