Hacker News: cryptos

New comment by cryptos in "Generic Methods in Go 1.27"

cryptos — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:33:34 +0000

And in the end it might be a culture problem in the contexts Java is used in.

New comment by cryptos in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

cryptos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:50:45 +0000

I've experience severe problems with Scala in teams with different skill levels or programming styles. Sometimes Scala code was very cryptic. As much as I like the elegance of the language as such, I've given up on it completely because it is not a good fit for industrial software development in my opinion.

New comment by cryptos in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

cryptos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:47:30 +0000

The error messages are just advertising for Oracle consulting!

New comment by cryptos in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

cryptos — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:03:57 +0000

An interesting example to look at is Java vs. Kotlin. While Kotlin is a bit easier and definetly more fun, it didn't manage to gain a big market share in the Java space so far. I guess that this is the case, because Java is good enough and seems to be the safer bet (at least for managers).

New comment by cryptos in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"

cryptos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:42:44 +0000

I know and like Java for almost 30 years now. It is amazing how carefully the language is beeing refined. For the cultural aspect, yes, that is sadly true, but I have the feeling that the culture changes. More and more developers realize that there is a better way now (e. g. records instead of dumb classes full of getters and setters). Maybe the main problem is bloated frameworks and their stickyness. The Helidon framework, for example, is a breath of fresh air compared to Spring. Go developers complaining about huge Java frameworks and boilplate could be happy with it.

New comment by cryptos in "Why the future is local app"

cryptos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:04:52 +0000

This article looks a bit superficial to me. The cloud has definitely advantages, like having the same data on all devices and it provides some kind of backup. The mentioned downsides could be adressed by better software archticture or e2e encryption.

New comment by cryptos in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

cryptos — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:20:41 +0000

Somehow money seem to damage personality. It's the same with David Heinemeier Hansson (who know Tobias Lütke in person), Elon Musk and many other folks.

New comment by cryptos in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

cryptos — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:58:15 +0000

That is basically true for every such system. Trust Signal? They could ship a backdoor in the next release. Same with Threema, WhatsApp (if you want to trust it today) and other services. You can expand that to the operating system as well. And who able to verify hardware security, anyway?

New comment by cryptos in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

cryptos — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:02:15 +0000

The right reason to hate XML would be some technical limitation or technical issues with it. But XML works quite well and is reasonable powerful. So the complaints usually boil down to: It is ugly and verbose.

New comment by cryptos in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

cryptos — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:29:03 +0000

Interesting point of view. JSON is also not the right thing to use in many scenarios, but it is the de-facto standard now. Maybe something like protobuf is the way to go.

New comment by cryptos in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

cryptos — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:26:23 +0000

At least XML is hated for the wrong reasons (e.g. verbosity, esthetics) most of the time. There was for sure an era where it was overused (see Apache Cocoon from 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cocoon). But XML is still a pretty good format to exchange (and store) data and make sure the data conforms to a certain schema. JSON Schema in comparison is not nearly as powerful.

New comment by cryptos in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

cryptos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:26:12 +0000

Maybe Peter Thiel and Elon Musk will meet again cryogenically preserved ;-) https://fortune.com/2023/05/04/peter-thiel-cryonics-cryogeni...

New comment by cryptos in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

cryptos — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:22:29 +0000

Everything will be folded in "X" eventually, anyway.

New comment by cryptos in "GitHub Actions down again today"

cryptos — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:19:31 +0000

Looks good, but I'm not sure about security: https://bearyangry.com/2026/04/29/carrot-disclosure-forgejo-...

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:54:34 +0000

It works as long as your are the only user. Sharing passwords with shared keepass files didn't work properly for me. It was the main reason to move to 1Password (and I never looked back).

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:46:38 +0000

Passbolt https://www.passbolt.com/ might be an interesting alternative. The feature set looks pretty good at first sight. The only real downside I see so far is that it doesn't have macOS and Linux apps. Other than Bitwarden it is real open source.

New comment by cryptos in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

cryptos — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:47:02 +0000

It is limited to ... well ... Firefox! Sometimes you need passwords elsewhere. Besides that Firefox (or other browser password managers) doesn't support more advanced use cases like shared vaults.

New comment by cryptos in "What async promised and what it delivered"

cryptos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:37:54 +0000

I think that Java has a really good solution to offer: Virtual Threads. They share the same interface with native threads and free developers from the burdens of async programming. You only need to take care of some things like accidental thread pinning (through legacy code) and the use of ThreadLocal, but otherwise this complexity is hidden.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/core/virtual-threa...

New comment by cryptos in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

cryptos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:14:00 +0000

Might be true, but Subversion was also good enough and a de-facto standard.

New comment by cryptos in "Java is fast, code might not be"

cryptos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:34:47 +0000

`var` has nothing to do with dynamic typing. It is still statically (compile time) typed, so the type can not change at runtime. Compare that to JavaScript where you could easily switch the type of a variable from Number to String.