Rich-Harris

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:

dmitshur

WARNING: If you're reading this in 2021 or later, you're likely better served by reading:

• https://go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Configuration_for_downloading_non_public_code
• https://go.dev/ref/mod#private-modules

(This gist was created in 2013 and targeted the legacy GOPATH mode.)

$ ssh -A vm
$ git config --global url."git@github.com:".insteadOf "https://github.com/"