Rich Harris on the Svelte 5 reception

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Summary
In this episode we sit down with Rich Harris — creator of Svelte — and talk about the recent development of Svelte and SvelteKit.

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Discussion

Rich Harris introduction
Svelte 5 Feedback
- Simon and Paolo shoutout
- New command line tool: npx sv migrate svelte-5
Advent of Svelte
- Svelte
  - error boundaries
  - bind: set/get
  - Actions
  - Async stuff
    - Load in Kit
    - Stores not scoped!!! WHY NOT?
- Kit
  - State based equivalents of the stores
    - AsyncContext/AsyncLocalStorage
  - Error boundaries built-in
  - Partial Pre-rendering
JSNation
Hot takes
- Rich: We need more hot tak
- Kevin: SQLite is the best
PIcks
- Rich:
  - Bluesky
  - Book - Lifespan, David Sinclair

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