# Gea

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Gea and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for building UI that stays close to plain JavaScript and compiles to fast native code; critics say it is new, lacks some features, and needs clearer documentation.

## Why people recommend it

- Close to plain JavaScript (4 comments): "it doesn't fight the language. Stores are classes. Computed values are getters." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481463)) "I believe we cover an important base of idiomatic JavaScript right now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481437)) "I wanted to build something that felt _native_ to the language." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481838))
- Simple, few concepts to learn (2 comments): "Gea's syntax requires you to write less code, while also requiring you to know less concepts" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482134)) "In the end Gea is basically as simple as a plain old JavaScript class" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481928))
- Fast performance (3 comments): "I was originally hesitant about the performance of proxies, too, but they turned out to be great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483449)) "This is one of the main reasons why Gea is so performant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481318)) "Gea is 3.5x faster than Perry" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819986))

## What people warn about

- Speed gains small or none (2 comments): "But all of those metrics differ by something like 1 millisecond" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482103)) "So at best, Gea is a tie on speed with Solid, the bundle is bigger, and even time to first paint is a little worse." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481467))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [React](https://hackerapproved.com/p/react.md): 482 recommend
- [htmx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/htmx.md): 320 recommend
- [Svelte](https://hackerapproved.com/p/svelte.md): 151 recommend
- [Vue](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vue.md): 121 recommend
- [Angular](https://hackerapproved.com/p/angular.md): 82 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gea", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gea/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).