Comment by rawoke083600

100% - Common guys we are programmers in a field that is know for changing consistently (probably a lot faster than other careers). If you see learning new "syntax" for the basics (loops,conditionals etc) then you going to have problems down the road. Weather you use svelte, or some other new tech. If you really never want to learn another syntax.. learn LISP and be done with it.

You are a programmer, you will need to learn new syntax a few times in your career.

If some of the "biggest" complaints are "oh no I have to learn how to write for-loops again" - I guess svelte is doing the important stuff right.

Wayyyy back in the day(ok not that long ago - 80/90's) when I was learning a new lang (Pascal,C, C++) I used to tell myself If I can get an working example of:

1) "user-input (readline,scanf etc)"

2) "printing input/output"

3) "calling functions/procedures"

4) "Do the loops + conditionals"

5) "file I/O"

6) "Memory schematics"

You basically mastered the "building blocks/mrk(min-req-knowledge)" of the new lang and like maths you only need now practice or a good project.

TL;DR If you are a professional-career-programmer, learning "new syntax (we used to call them keywords)" is a requirement.