Hacker News: Blackarea

New comment by Blackarea in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

Blackarea — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:49:55 +0000

Well it may not life up to uncle Bob's clean code standards but it does fit the repo's name, doesn't it?

New comment by Blackarea in "GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft"

Blackarea — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:30:01 +0000

Im on mobile

New comment by Blackarea in "GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft"

Blackarea — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:44:35 +0000

Captcha fails on archive now? Jeez - free internet is past

New comment by Blackarea in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

Blackarea — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:11:10 +0000

A webui halicunated just for you? I think this must be by far the scariest and from my point of view worst idea you could ever come up with, no offense. Why would you ever want your web-experience to be non deterministic. A different ui every time you load? Even longer loading spinners then with mbs of react dependencies today? This is wrong on more levels then I could count

New comment by Blackarea in "How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999)"

Blackarea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:01:59 +0000

Could make that an AGENT.md and use a dumber model via opencode to slop maxx even harder!

New comment by Blackarea in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

Blackarea — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:50:35 +0000

yes! I just don't understand that as well. Up until some time ago claud code's preferred install was a npm i, wasn't it? Please serious answers for why anyone would use a web language for a terminal app

New comment by Blackarea in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

Blackarea — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:59:08 +0000

3 source files, nice code, no vibe-coding slob, nice little project... That's rare these days

New comment by Blackarea in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

Blackarea — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:53:31 +0000

Bat is nice. Oh dang now i have to try this plugin. I remember trying a couple of similar ones that got me so frustrated that i abandoned the idea of markdown viewers in nvim... Here we go again XD

New comment by Blackarea in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

Blackarea — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:52:01 +0000

... Literally ruined

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxFZA4XXnXzHyNso0OQ28XU60U1-jdR13...

New comment by Blackarea in "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"

Blackarea — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:20:14 +0000

<3 if I don't see 15 new node modules and 3 CVEs by EOB today I'll replace you with a css architect and vibe-coding nft monkey by next week!

New comment by Blackarea in "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"

Blackarea — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:29:40 +0000

Just as the modern Javascript applications. What if - and hear me out on this one - Javascript just is a poor choice for huge complex codebases?

New comment by Blackarea in "Liquid-rust: Liquid templating for Rust"

Blackarea — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:18:31 +0000

Why they call pipes filter? And if... endif? Not for me

New comment by Blackarea in "It’s been a very hard year"

Blackarea — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:45:38 +0000

Mass of learning material doesn't equal quality though. The amount of poor react code out there is not to underestimate. I feel like llm generated gleam code was way cleaner (after some agentic loops due to syntactic misunderstanding) than ts/react where it's so biased to produce overly verbose slob.

New comment by Blackarea in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

Blackarea — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:14:10 +0000

Grepping "extends" over a new codebase is a quick way to see how fucked you are when joining a new project/team.

New comment by Blackarea in "The kind of company I want to be a part of"

Blackarea — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:17:47 +0000

I literally couldn't care less. You can call it '1th of April' for all that i care if the actual functionality you offer is clean and fast I'll gladly accept!

New comment by Blackarea in "Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM"

Blackarea — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:28:11 +0000

> btn.finish().with_child(pipe!($read(cnt).to_string()))

New comment by Blackarea in "Ribir: Non-intrusive GUI framework for Rust/WASM"

Blackarea — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:21:51 +0000

> You can choose to use it (macros) or not.

Yet both examples use macros.

I might still got ptsd from a job where literally all of the rust codebase was written as macros. Since then I avoid them at all costs.

I find the route, that gleam took, way more elegant with squirrel (sqlx-ish) and lustre (elm-like) being examples of what we could have instead. Avoiding language mixing is so important for proper/clean lsp-support - yet macros are a different language as i see it.

As for the rest of this: i also don't see how it's any different from iced, egui etc. but maybe I didn't take the time to check the details...

New comment by Blackarea in "Code like a surgeon"

Blackarea — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:58:51 +0000

> Code like a surgeon ... As a UI prototyper

XD yes sure. I'd most definitely put those on the same level. Maybe even favor an UI prototyper if it comes down to the real deal. Who needs an open heart surgery when you can have a magnificent css-hover animation that really seals the deal on some 90%-AI-generated slob that only caters to delusional top-management completely out-of-touch with reality.

Irony off: Let's try it with a bit of humbleness next time, ey?

New comment by Blackarea in "Elixir 1.19"

Blackarea — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 07:08:18 +0000

Oh really a compiled strong and statically typed Language doesn't have a repl? How come?

New comment by Blackarea in "Elixir 1.19"

Blackarea — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:20:34 +0000

What? Gleam can compile to js. I don't see the similarity to kotlin being oo and all. Gleams compile time is lightyears ahead of anything on the jvm. I appreciate kotlins nullability constraints but to me it seems the jvm ecosystem is too grown to give kotlin the space it needs. Also heared that java's pattern matching and exhaustive checks have surpassed kotlins? In that case it's just easier to role with java, no?