Why mandatory interpolation?

[Stefanovicius]

Why
<h1>{"Welcome to Ripple!"}</h1>
And not
<h1>Welcome to Ripple!</h1>
?

Seems redundant, should be:

const name = 'Ripple'
<h1>Welcome to {name}!</h1>

Then it would be perfect.

[WebEferen]

It's mostly because our parser is checking each block on it's own (token based). So we need interpolation to make sure that we have encapsulated the text inside. This single change would slow down the parser/compiler as it would need to have additional checks (token by token) to analyze whether something is text or statement.