Do they still operate with very little backwards compatibility policy? They kill...

cmews · 2024-10-19T20:17:11 1729369031

They still support svelte 4 syntax and announced today as well a new migrate CLI to help moving from svelte 4 to svelte 5.

CLI tool: https://github.com/sveltejs/cli

Edit: added the link to the CLI tool

hu3 · 2024-10-19T21:11:14 1729372274

Sapper was a looong time ago in terms of web dev chronology. I even forgot.

Why makes you think SvelteKit could be dead? What a weird a pessimistic phrasing.

gumbul · 2024-10-25T06:44:43 1729838683

It's not a pessimistic statement. I'm just saying they did. There is no guarantee that they will not do the same in the sveltekit project :) I recommend people make smart decisions and use it.

jdsleppy · 2024-10-19T23:22:18 1729380138

SvelteKit is very alive and is the way svelte apps are made generally, not like next.js which is more optional.