They claim that they deduplicate runtimes. I question how much can really be shared between different branches when everything is recompiled. How much has /usr changed between releases of Ubuntu? I would guess just about all of it.

Yep, we experimented with this, but what we found is that you loose most of Svelte's niceness like slots, and instead you'll pass around deeply nested objects.

that is not ideal, since for example 'Cookie' is a forbidden header name, so I have to start worrying about env in load, which is kind of contra to its design.

It’s easy to create bugs because the environment is a somewhat degenerate settings database.

companies want to promote what the technology can do, so they de-emphasize that the way in which you do it is less than ideal

It makes me happy to see people actually think about things and not just accept a shitty API.

Disk space is an issue. Resource usage is an issue. Those new packages nowadays need huge amount of storage to finally do the exact same thing as their older and lighter deb counterpart. Whatever the price of storage, it’s the opposite of a progress, it’s not optimal at all.