Rename default snippet from children to slot in Svelte 5

[notramo]

It would bring 2 benefits:

• More obvious that it's a slot. Many frameworks use the "slot" word to describe slot content.
• Fewer characters -> less typing.

[Conduitry]

children, I believe, was selected because of the name React gives to a similar concept.

Calling this slot is, I think, a bad idea, because there are going to be a bunch of search results out there talking about a different feature if someone searches for this. 'Slot' was also selected because of the web components concept of <slot>, as association we've also grown to regret, because it doesn't really work the same.

[zhihengGet]

what about add slot as an alias to children? maybe an option to enable it svelte:options

[Conduitry]

Having two names for the same thing or having an option to use a different name for something are both even worse ideas.

[Rich-Harris]

More obvious that it's a slot

it's not, though. if you really want to use Svelte 4 terminology then it's slotted content, i.e. the inverse of a slot.

and it would make no sense at all to use that word for (the artist previously known as) the default slot while continuing to use a different word for named slots. just wildly confusing!

Many frameworks use the "slot" word to describe slot content.

many frameworks use children

Fewer characters -> less typing.

brevity is cool but on that basis we should use single characters for everything. 'children' is much more descriptive and obvious