Intros are hard

Infinite Jest is my white whale. I've tried to read it so many times but I always get stuck. I don't know what it is, loving the book on principle but being humbled by its reality. Relevant to us, though, is it's huge number of footnotes. It's a key feature of the book, where the content of the footnotes sometimes take us the audience on a journey far away from the context of the page that it is pretending to help explain. Indeed, some of the footnotes have their own footnotes…

The Motivation

Svelte is like Rust for me in that I had heard good things for years before I even gave it a try.

Svelte is like Rust for me in that I loved it immediately.

It's really very simple to write in, the basic idea is engaging, and after trying it I wanted so badly for it to succeed. For context I have professional experience with vanilla JavaScript, React, and Angular. After transitioning a small app from Angular to Svelte, here were my takeaways…