Lit has always supported plain JS ways of authoring components. Just because it also supported TypeScript and Babel decorators doesn't make it "pre-spec".

Lots of developers like decorators, we gave them the option. _shrug_

> Lit was never quite so extreme in its worst pre-spec days

"pre-spec days"? What are you even talking about?

Angular has nothing to do with web components. It isn't even a way to write web components.

If anything is the "Google blessed" way of writing web components (Google doesn't really work that way), it's Lit: https://lit.dev/

> the spec was more or less abandoned by everyone but Google

This is very, very much not true.

All browsers are very up-to-date with web components APIs, and Safari is leading in some areas like scoped custom element registries, which they're about to ship first.

I'm guess that since this is an academic paper and not say, a website or GitHub repo, that you're in school. But given the research paper nature of this, did you want to contrast and compare to other methods of authoring web components?

There are many existing and popular approaches out there. Is your take easier, faster, or more capable? That discussion would be interesting.

Two that I help maintain are Lit (https://lit.dev) and Heximal (https://heximal.dev/). Of those, Heximal might share the most with Zjs.