If the differences are only minor then what does it enable that the more popular alternative does not?

You're right the familiarity is a good thing though - just look at TypeScript!

> If the differences are only minor then what does it enable that the more popular alternative does not?

Fair point. I think there's a tradeoff in there somewhere. The fact that you need to do things like wrap JavaScript in order to use it within Mint sets off all kinds of alarm bells for me. I still like the concept, but justifying an entirely new language (to myself, to my higher ups, to the company at large) is a high bar.

Yeah Vuejs was super similar to angular 1.0 that at first I thought why the heck would anyone use this clone framework. But just after using it once I realized how it had taken everything good from ang 1, dropped everything that sucked (di, decorator,etc) creating a super awesome version of it.

So yeah it isn't bad if it looks similar to something lots of people already use.

I agree.

The first thing I thought was that it reminds me of Svelte, which I have been using and like a lot.

Like you, I'm not sure it's for me, but I also think it's interesting.