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I've been deceiving you all. I had you believe that Svelte was a UI framework — unlike React and Vue etc, because it shifts work out of the client and into the compiler, but a framework nonetheless.

But that's not exactly accurate. In my defense, I didn't realise it myself until very recently. But with Svelte 3 around the corner, it's time to come clean about what Svelte really is.

Svelte is a language.

Specifically, Svelte is an attempt to answer a question that many people have asked, and a few have answered: what would it look like if we had a language for describing reactive user interfaces?

A few projects that have answered this question:

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In this article I'm going to walk you through the process of creating Wordpress plugins. First I'm going to talk about some of the basic concepts in Wordpress plugin development like the actions, hooks, and API's that make up Wordpress. Then we're going to build a plugin where we apply some of the concepts and best practices in developing Wordpress plugins.

Prerequisites

In order to fully benefit from this tutorial:

• You should have a basic knowledge of PHP
• A running instance of WordPress with access to PHP
• Beginner knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is helpful but not required

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What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient in both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.