Svelte at Bloomberg

Svelte Radio

Summary:
In this episode we sit down with Julian Burgess to talk about what he does at Bloomberg, how he uses Svelte and some thoughts about Svelte 5 and other exciting tech.

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Discussion

• Introduction and background
• Svelte 5 thoughts
• What does Bloomberg use Svelte for?
• Zed editor
• Side projects
• Unpopular opinions
  • Kevin: ORMs are shit, just use SQL
  • Julian: CSS shouldn’t exist
    • CSS Zen Garden: https://csszengarden.com
    • Kevin: https://corset.dev

Picks

• Kevin: London is great!
• Julian: Gooey
  • Svelte tweak pane: https://github.com/kitschpatrol/svelte-tweakpane-ui
  • dat.gui: https://github.com/dataarts/dat.gui