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It's not the same, though. Those are compiling textual templates into executable JavaScript. React/Preact do this automatically, too.

What Glimmer does is it converts your views into bytecode (not JavaScript) which can be streamed and run without a JavaScript compilation / parsing phase in the browser. Vue, React, and Angular views all ultimately are translated into JavaScript which has to be compiled / parsed in each browser.




I'll have a look at Glimmer later, but who executes this bytecode?


> They are instantly executable by a small VM written as a JS library

Guess you have download the VM on initial page load.


Yes. It's about 18KB of JavaScript.


glimmer-vm https://github.com/glimmerjs/glimmer-vm


Is it more similar to Vue server-side rendering (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/ssr.html)? Or are Glimmer and server-side rendering two different beasts?


Two different beasts.




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