Maybe just me but I actually think building web apps is already fun. I’ve got a hot reloading instant dev environment, I can publish to users in an instant… it’s great!
Looking at the Marko examples I feel the same way I do whenever similar stuff gets showcased: it’s trying to focus too hard on brevity and/or cutesiness and doesn’t seem like it would scale well to a full, complex web app. But maybe it’s not supposed to and maybe that’s fine.
React and Svelte and the rest can read clunkily at times but they have a clear separation of concerns and I’m glad for that.
Pretty much every JS framework has SSR, the question is really how quickly does it hydrate. React typically rates poorly there but Svelte does great, at least partially because it has a compiler to optimize (like Marko does, it appears).
Marko’s compiler is designed for partial hydration (by default, without any special developer effort), which performs quite well. IIRC they were also looking at implementing “resumability” (term coined by Qwik, for an approach that sidesteps hydration as a concept entirely). I’m not sure where they’re at on that now, but I think it’s generally safe to say that Marko prioritizes load time performance more than nearly all other frameworks.
Looking at the Marko examples I feel the same way I do whenever similar stuff gets showcased: it’s trying to focus too hard on brevity and/or cutesiness and doesn’t seem like it would scale well to a full, complex web app. But maybe it’s not supposed to and maybe that’s fine.
React and Svelte and the rest can read clunkily at times but they have a clear separation of concerns and I’m glad for that.