# decisionlog

> How real engineering decisions get made. One open-source pull request, issue, or RFC at a time — read end to end with the debate, the trade-offs, and the lesson left in.

decisionlog publishes case studies of open-source engineering decisions. Each issue takes one pull request, issue, or RFC and walks through the debate behind it: who pushed back, what trade-offs got accepted, what didn't ship.

Audience: working software engineers. The case-study format favours real conflict over polite consensus, named maintainers over anonymous summaries, and a single takeaway over many.

## Issues

- [Why Rich Harris reverted Svelte's $state.link 24 hours after merging it](https://decisionlog.dev/posts/0001-svelte-state-link/): On August 20, 2024, Rich Harris merged a new Svelte rune. He filed the revert before midnight. Twenty-four hours later, $state.link was gone.

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