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Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by sghiassy on Thursday October 01, 2026 @09:28PM (#49928958)
Does anyone care anymore?

Honest question? Whatever the agent is best at programming out to achieve a high quality outcome works for me. Just write the acceptance tests and be done with it

Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by etatester on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:03AM (#49929718)
Time to ask the agent to spit out compiled wasm then if it doesn't matter.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by sghiassy on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:09PM (#49937298)
Agreed, everything is trending back to C
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by drewbitt on Thursday October 01, 2026 @09:56PM (#49929109)
In the last 3 months svelte + kit have had 302 issues and 1,107 PRs opened (802 merged), 512 distinct humans opening/commenting/committing, and almost 100 unique code contributors. So yes, people care.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by password54321 on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:19AM (#49931505)
>humans

It is probably LLMs all the way down.

Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by goolz on Thursday October 01, 2026 @09:31PM (#49928980)
For what it is worth, I care, if only for the simple fact that it is an interesting project.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by afavour on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:38AM (#49929896)
Svelte is faster and smaller on client devices than React is. If you care about user experience you should probably care, yes.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by rbits on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:51AM (#49930199)
God that's depressing. I would hope that this website hasn't lost all interest in coding because AI can do it now.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by eknkc on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:56AM (#49930967)
Isn't that inevitable?

I used to keep an eye on the web frameworks. Tried Solid JS, Vue, Svelte etc regularly to see what's going on. But at this point, if I'm not gonna enjoy the platform or suffer from it then it might as well be jquery + imperative code.

Also, web frameworks are not really about coding anyway. These are HTML generators. They were about developer ergonomics beyond anything and were important when it was about developers.

Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by bottlepalm on Friday October 02, 2026 @12:34PM (#49935491)
I used to spend a lot of time here discussing and debating frameworks, not so much lately. It's a depressing how much time we spent in framework wars. I don't miss it.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by kursus on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:30AM (#49945145)
This was simply replaced by LLMs wars. I find it even less fun.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by x-complexity on Friday October 02, 2026 @02:26AM (#49930409)
> Honest question? Whatever the agent is best at programming out to achieve a high quality outcome works for me. Just write the acceptance tests and be done with it

Even under your premise, the framework that helps agents get there faster is the better framework, programming capabilities notwithstanding.

Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by password54321 on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:10AM (#49931428)
Yup, LLMs can just write Python scripts that can just do the same thing for you without frameworks, NPM, Yarn, dependencies, sneaky bugs, random packages needing updates.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by kursus on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:27AM (#49945123)
And then you can no longer change a label without LLM assistance. I don't doubt this suits some people but impotently begging Claude to fix a critical bug while your boss looks over your shoulder must be quite humiliating.
Re:SvelteKit 3 Is Here by jamesnorden on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:46AM (#49932029)
This kind of post is basically spam.