Rich Harris, the creator of Svelte, has joined Vercel to help them achieve their mission to make the Web faster. Svelte has seen significant growth in popularity, doubling its downloads and gaining a large community, and will now receive full-time support from Rich. The governance of Svelte remains independent and open-source, with Vercel backing enabling the project to become more ambitious. The future of Svelte is focused on building "transitional apps" that combine the best parts of traditional and single-page apps for a great user experience. Vercel's sponsorship of frameworks like Svelte aims to create a better Web ecosystem by supporting tools that are enjoyable to use and enabling developers to build incredible experiences.