Comment by troupo

> It’s similar enough to html that

"Similar enough" is a far cry from "It’s just html, in strings, in JavaScript"

> anybody familiar with html and JS can pick it up

Just like JSX. But no one calls JSX "just HTML" (and in React, with rules of hooks, it's no longer "just JS"). In Solid JSX returns actual DOM nodes btw.

> it mostly just feels like building a huge html string.

Because that's what you essentially do. lit runtime parses your custom string, converts it to proper HTML, concatenates that into a string, and then dumps into the document with innerHTML (it does set up data bindings etc. , so it's more than just thay of course)