[protonimitate]

Admittedly I haven't followed Svelte super closely, but isn't "no JSX/TSX" kind of a major ideological point? From reading the intro docs, it seems like separation of js/css/html is a selling point. JSX/TSX would contradict that, no?

Just wondering if my read is correct or if there's some other reason it's been left off the table.

[nicoburns]

Nobody truly separates JS from HTML. You either have to put something HTMLish in the JS, or something JSish in the HTML (HTML itself supports this of course).

IMO the HTML-in-JS solutions (i.e. JSX) are superior to the JS-in-HTML solutions (e.g. Angular/Vue Templates) because they put the standardised turing-complete language in the driving seat rather than the propriety, hard to extend template language.

[alserio]

Still, it's way easier to integrate a js library in a svelte component than in a react component. So maybe the two approaches have different tradeoffs and respective advantages

[swyx]

it is. HTML is the first language of the web, not JS - this is why framework agnostic libraries are so much easier to use with Svelte than with React.