Rich Harris on the Svelte 5 reception

Summary
In this episode we sit down with Rich Harris — creator of Svelte — and talk about the recent development of Svelte and SvelteKit.

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Discussion

• Rich Harris introduction
• Svelte 5 Feedback
  • Simon and Paolo shoutout
  • New command line tool: npx sv migrate svelte-5
• Advent of Svelte
  • Svelte
    • error boundaries
    • bind: set/get
    • Actions
    • Async stuff
      • Load in Kit
      • Stores not scoped!!! WHY NOT?
  • Kit
    • State based equivalents of the stores
      • AsyncContext/AsyncLocalStorage
    • Error boundaries built-in
    • Partial Pre-rendering
• JSNation
• Hot takes
  • Rich: We need more hot tak
  • Kevin: SQLite is the best
• PIcks
  • Rich:
    • Bluesky
    • Book - Lifespan, David Sinclair