song of the day: Von Wegen Lisbeth - Madame Tussauds - dropped one hour ago!
data-star is an alternative to htmx and got some favourable reviews: https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/articles/why-i-switched-from-htmx-to-datastar/
https://data-star.dev/essays/why_another_framework
update: after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536000 it seems like the article is misrepresenting a few things.