Can a Compiler-First Framework Scale to Real Apps Without Reinventing React?

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Kudzu, an open-source compiler-first web framework that lets you write familiar React-shaped TypeScript/TSX without shipping React, a VDOM, or hydration by default.

The original idea is straightforward:

write familiar TSX

analyze components, state, events, lists, effects, and dependencies at build time

emit complete HTML