The thing I like about Svelte the most is that it's closer to raw HTML. Rather than having to keep up with all the React developments if you're not using it all the time.
Is anyone hand-writing code anymore though in 2026? I don't think many people these days have to worry about "keeping up with all the React developments", because Claude/Codex handles all that now.
Yes. I can understand a backend engineer who wants to slap together a frontend just deferring the whole thing to LLMs but there are a lot of frontend engineers out there that care a lot about performance and the like who are absolutely keeping up with React developments, no matter whether the final code is LLM generated or not.
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