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New comment by afiori in "Ghostty 1.4"

afiori — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:45:13 +0000

In a sense I would expect C to be the most portable language ever* so I am not sure how good of a comparison candidate it is

* With some UB herbs and spices

New comment by afiori in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

afiori — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:22:49 +0000

that is even worse

New comment by afiori in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

afiori — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:17:05 +0000

no, it is the same idea, even if the excavator was magically free there are associated costs like keeping an industrial machine in your garden, danger or heavy machinery and possibly it is going to destroy you garden.

the analogy is not between each specific consequence/cost, it is relative to "single axis optimization" not being a solid strategy

New comment by afiori in "The Future of CSS"

afiori — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:51:49 +0000

Because that CSS can be evaluated with lower latency than the equivalent js

New comment by afiori in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

afiori — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:33:54 +0000

unsafe rust is still typed orders of magnitude better than C

New comment by afiori in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

afiori — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:49:50 +0000

Yep cost is the reason, allegedly the ts team found go a better language for a port and both using a less ergonomic language and switching target every six months have associated costs

New comment by afiori in "Parser Combinators"

afiori — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:27:47 +0000

Here the list is the "flattened” ast of (Node, slice of input corresponding to the node)

New comment by afiori in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

afiori — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:32:04 +0000

Pushing for shorter keys can be reasonable, otherwise we would all use 16 MB keys

New comment by afiori in "Your C is not standard C"

afiori — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:29:04 +0000

this only warn that there is some implementation-defined stuff coming next, not that all these operator are free of undefined behaviour

New comment by afiori in "A look at the math that OpenAI claims computes faster Fourier transforms"

afiori — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:02:34 +0000

Not everyone needs to care about everything and there is reason to say that a result like this one from openai is quite sterile and possibly damaging to the socio-cultural dynamic of the field.

New comment by afiori in "Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster"

afiori — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:54:22 +0000

I never did a blind test but I feel i get much improved writing for work stuff with instructions to use ASDSTE-100

New comment by afiori in "Next.js 16.4"

afiori — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:05:28 +0000

I feel like solid-js is in a good place to be a platform

New comment by afiori in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

afiori — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:08:51 +0000

loadshedding is based on each load having an associated priority

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:23:16 +0000

I don't think that standards did anything wrong or incompetent, but with hindsight considering all the complexities they bring i am hot sure they have been worth it

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:19:29 +0000

If you are referring to how SSR pages need to download the serialised page "props" and not just the html+js then good news! Solid 2.0 is about to solve this.

If you are referring to having to download react itself then you have to download the WebComponents code too.

Actually with smart use of forms and links you could make a js free react page (using forms to submit state changes) more easily than for WebComponents

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:56:05 +0000

WebComponents are some of the coolest APIs on the web if you ignore all the ways they fall short and make everything else harder

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:40:20 +0000

This comment is at the same depth of analysis of saying that the only reason for python being successful is that universities started teaching it and then people no longer could do C++

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:56:31 +0000

The reason react sites are bloated is because there are a lot of things that are easy to do once you have better DX, there is nothing stopping you from making completely static sites with no js (solid-js 2.0 has a whole "htmx-like" mode that lets you have good interactivity even with js disabled).

WebComponents are useful for cases where you want something slightly more integrated than an iframe or want to make a library of small widgets

New comment by afiori in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

afiori — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:03:20 +0000

WebComponents were created out of spite for react and are the composability equivalent of medieval artist drawing horses that look like they had never seen an horse

New comment by afiori in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

afiori — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:04:51 +0000

I don't why a sha256 project could not support sha1 usages too: if you try to merge/rebase/cherrypick/whatever a sha1 commit in a sha256 project git could simply recompute the needed s256 data and keep old sha1 ids as validated metadata. you could even use either hashes as tree-like refs.

you could even do the same in reverse and "import" sha256 commits in sha1 projects. the only real difference would be which one is used as primary key in git's internal store.