Hacker News: SmileyKeith

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:50:06 +0000

Yea that one is fine and well covered in the blog post, and pretty easy to spot in light testing. I'm much more worried about the ones that are harder to spot until you have a false negative that turns into a real bug which would be caught by 1 tool and not another.

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:23:35 +0000

Can you add some examples of the things users care about that aren't well covered by this? I empathize with everyone who wants a feature comparison chart so they can be confident switching without unknowingly losing important safety checks.

New comment by SmileyKeith in "[dead]"

SmileyKeith — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:36:38 +0000

Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2JaAnMMo0

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Mold 2.0"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:50:26 +0000

Looks like someone filed an issue about this https://github.com/bluewhalesystems/sold/issues/35

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Mold 2.0"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:35:28 +0000

That has been there for a while so I think it's still an open question of if this change of strategy applies to that repo too

Rust: The wrong people are resigning

SmileyKeith — Sun, 28 May 2023 19:28:29 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/fasterthanlime/42da9378768aebef662dd26dddf04849

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106942

Points: 295

# Comments: 317

Why I Left Rust

SmileyKeith — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:46:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501

Points: 861

# Comments: 783

Design Priorities for the Swift 6 Language Mode

SmileyKeith — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:22:24 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.swift.org/t/design-priorities-for-the-swift-6-language-mode/62408

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34263175

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Future of Foundation

SmileyKeith — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/future-of-foundation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33923484

Points: 77

# Comments: 7

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (2013)"

SmileyKeith — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 04:17:12 +0000

This isn't the primary part of this conversation but I found this quote pretty interesting:

> Now, we are starting to work on Safari again but look at Chrome. They put out releases at least every month while we basically do it once a year.

Even though this was in 2013 nothing about the release cycle (still only major changes with the major OS release versions). I wonder if some of the other emails have more context on this.

New comment by SmileyKeith in "The Problem with Go"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:34:39 +0000

I've had similar problems contributing to bazel (Google's open source build tool) for the past few years. I've found contributing only goes smoothly if there is a single Googler working in your area who cares about open source. Otherwise everything is very Google centric and the open source community is definitely a secondary concern (which is of course their right!)

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?"

SmileyKeith — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:56:46 +0000

FYI your website's CSS on mobile causes unexpected horizontal scrolling issues

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Ask HN: Do You Use RSS?"

SmileyKeith — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 13:44:06 +0000

Daily. I find it a great way to follow many low frequency blogs without having to fill my twitter feed or email with them.

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab"

SmileyKeith — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:28:46 +0000

> Github seems to be primarily focused on becoming a social network

I never hit the GitHub.com homepage so I never see any of this work. I always start directly on a repo, notifications, or search.

Announcing the Hare programming language

SmileyKeith — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://harelang.org/blog/announcing-hare/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31159780

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Reproducible Builds in January 2022"

SmileyKeith — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 18:30:44 +0000

> Even the slack requires an @google.com email to get in.

This shouldn't be the case, I'm in this slack and it's mostly non-google folks. Do you see this at https://slack.bazel.build ?

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux"

SmileyKeith — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 23:51:02 +0000

In this case I meant taking an approach similar to this one for bazel[0] that is not limited to only code that works on Linux. It would only allow you to build on Linux and would require any testing / running would still happen on macOS, but that might still be worth it in some cases. Theoretically you could deploy your iOS app that way as well.

[0]: https://github.com/apple-cross-toolchain/rules_applecross

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:51:12 +0000

For bazel users there is also this project[0] which runs the tools natively on Linux without requiring this layer. Although you lose tools like ibtool / actool which don't have open source re-implementations.

[0]: https://github.com/apple-cross-toolchain/rules_applecross

New comment by SmileyKeith in "Darling – Run Mac apps on Linux"

SmileyKeith — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:49:53 +0000

This does generally work, but it requires a lot of manual effort to setup the environment correctly with Xcode's SDKs to satisfy the compiler / linker.

The Mobile Native Foundation

SmileyKeith — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:27:19 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.lyft.com/announcing-the-mobile-native-foundation-a289ec63b60a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26317003

Points: 7

# Comments: 0