> I don't understand the cult following around Svelte. There's a lot of magic and complexity hiding in there.
What's new is old again :) People started doing React because they got tired of mixing languages for logic, structure and styles, why not do it all in JS? They got tired of that, so why not separate them? They got tired of manually doing bindings, so now that's hidden behind abstractions ("Hello 2000s templating magic"). I wonder what they'll get tired of next.
My point being: If I ask you today, I'm very likely to get a difference answer compared to in 2-3 years, and if I wait yet again 2-3 years, another answer :)
Next is writing code entirely. Whatever has the most robust documentation will be the next big thing, since AI agents will be writing the code for the programmers.
I'm concerned about the opposite possibility. All the effort will go into tweaking models and adjusting their training data until they generate acceptable output, and documentation for human consumption will be an afterthought.
> documentation for human consumption will be an afterthought.
The documentation just changed a layer upwards in the abstraction ladder. Instead of docs for the code that runs on the machines, we'll write docs for the programs we've built that can generate the code that runs on the machines.
What's new is old again :) People started doing React because they got tired of mixing languages for logic, structure and styles, why not do it all in JS? They got tired of that, so why not separate them? They got tired of manually doing bindings, so now that's hidden behind abstractions ("Hello 2000s templating magic"). I wonder what they'll get tired of next.