I think retiring Sapper was the right decision. I have a feeling Rollup will meet a similar end too.

They both seemed like fine pieces of software. They just don't seem offer separate much their counterparts nowadays that warrants continued feature development.

Rollup isn't going anywhere! When you poke behind the scenes of newer build tools, like Snowpack and Vite and the custom compiler that powers Remix Run, you'll find Rollup doing a lot of the heavy lifting. And it's the preferred choice of most libraries. There's a reason for that :)

Thanks for the correction, Rich.

I just watched your presentation at Svelte Summit and I'm looking forward to how Svelte progresses.

"Sapper is dead" is not really accurate. SvelteKit is Sapper + Snowpack and there will be a migration path.

SvelteKit will replace Sapper which will never reach 1.0. Development on Sapper will stop (or probably has already stopped).

Maybe this can save someone some confusion: When I searched the first result for SvelteKit seems to be another project that is dead.

The project hasn't really been publicly released yet. The repository is still private. The package is up on npm, but isn't ready for widespread adoption yet. I'd recommend sticking with Sapper for now.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sveltejs/kit

Should be called SveltePack IMO :)