[handsaway]

I've dabbled with Svelte and find it pleasant to use and I think this is a step in the right direction. The main reason I ultimately keep coming back to React is I find the compile-time alterations to the semantics of my code difficult to reason about.

I've spent a lot of time building an intuition for how Javascript code executes and how I can combine its primitives to make reasonable abstractions. The fact that this _looks_ like Javascript but suddenly operates differently is almost more confusing to me than if Svelte was just a non-Javascript language.

React's `useState`, `useMemo`, etc. are perhaps more verbose but they're just functions. Dependency arrays are messy but it's fairly easy to extrapolate their behavior from a basic description.