Welcome to Syntax. Today we got a show for you on Svelte 5.

Svald 5 has been out for how long, Scott?

A couple months now?

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe by the time you're listening to this a couple months. Yeah.

Okay. And there is a couple new primitives, couple new ways to sort of approach state and effects and whatnot and some kind of new

features. And Scott, you did a video on the syntax YouTube channel, right? And C.J.'s done a couple.

Yeah, I did a, actually, you know what is. It's funny. It's my first long form tutorial since

level up tutorials became syntax on YouTube. And yeah, it's funny it's my first long form tutorial since level up tutorials became syntax on

youtube and yeah it's uh it's a it's a like a two and a half hour long tutorial on you know

getting up and running with svel five especially if you've never used svelt or you're coming

from react i do a lot of like in react you do it like, yeah, it's a good base understanding of all of these APIs.

And I've been working in Svelte 5 since, man, the first alpha, the first time I could get my hands on it since I'm a Sveld ambassador.

I've been in the discords and I've been giving this stuff a go and testing the new APIs out as they've come pretty much as they come.

So yeah.

It's pretty nifty.

I'm a big fan of how all this works.

And we thought let's do like an audio episode running through the different features of what Svald 5 has.

But let's talk about Century. If you are

upgrading to Svelte 5 like we did on the syntax website, you're probably, or maybe, going to hit

some issues where you break something, especially as a pretty big website, right? And Century is

going to be there to figure out when those things go awry,

whether it's a database query that has run away on you, or whether it's a syntax error that when

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