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New comment by davidgtonge in "How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?"

davidgtonge — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:10:45 +0000

The rust version is being used by Claude Code though - which is a fairly large product!

I was hoping for more push back against https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust - which is pretty thorough and has some decent arguments and reasoning for why they did the rewrite.

New comment by davidgtonge in "Road to Elm 1.0"

davidgtonge — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:42:09 +0000

I agree and I think the ideas in Elm are applicable in many other contexts. Adopting a new language is just hard, especially with larger teams. I ended up taking some of the ideas of Elm but implementing with Rust and TS - https://dave.tonge.org/articles/make-ts-boring/

The basic idea - all application state and view model creation is in Rust (compiled to Wasm). I'm using Rust not really for performance, but for its strong type system. Components are in TS but have a strict contract they can only accept plain input props and output events. Rust processes the events and ships a view model patch to TS.

This is not "Elm in Rust/TS" but it is definitely Elm inspired.

New comment by davidgtonge in "18km immersed tunnel being built between Denmark and Germany"

davidgtonge — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 03:23:58 +0000

Thanks - I missed that. From the previous discussion here is one of the recent videos: https://vimeo.com/1053667887

New comment by davidgtonge in "Show HN: Explorable in-browser data dashboards to end spreadsheet scroll hell"

davidgtonge — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 13:18:53 +0000

Longtime HN lurker, I know this team and it is a genuinely useful tool. Congrats on the HN launch.

Universal basic incomes – sighing for paradise to come

davidgtonge — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:39:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21699910-arguments-state-stipend-payable-all-citizens-are-being-heard-more-widely-sighing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11826702

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why Mondo will blow Atom Bank out of the water

davidgtonge — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 15:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@davidgtonge/why-mondo-will-blow-atom-out-of-the-water-a1d39924c310#.lkh4tbyh2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11439583

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidgtonge in "Android Site Messed Up"

davidgtonge — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:35:27 +0000

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/heZD2JL.png

Android Site Messed Up

davidgtonge — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:33:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.android.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8461142

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidgtonge in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)"

davidgtonge — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 15:57:35 +0000

Blue Speck Financial - Bristol, UK

We're a fast growing start-up with a mission to help people better understand, organise and plan their finances. We recently won a best in show award at Finovate Europe and are looking for developers and designers to come on board and join us. (Bristol is often voted best city in the UK and has an amazing tech scene).

We use a JS / Coffee heavy tech stack - Node.JS, Backbone & D3 - but we're pragmatic and will use the best tool for the job.

We're currently looking for a:

* Senior Developer - Strong Backbone & Node skills, experience working with a large but modular codebase. £35k to £50k depending on experience.

* Front End Developer / Designer - UX focussed CSS crafter. Experience with D3 and designing touch based interfaces a plus. £28 to £40k depending on experience.

For more details on us as a company or the roles please send me an email: dave.tonge at bluespeckfinancial.co.uk

New comment by davidgtonge in "Chaplin, an Application Architecture based on Backbone.js"

davidgtonge — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:06:43 +0000

Very nice, really clean and well commented codebase. I love what you've done with the deferred and accumulator wrappers. Thanks for releasing this!

New comment by davidgtonge in "Query API for Backbone Collections"

davidgtonge — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:37:02 +0000

Thanks, any feedback is welcome.

Query API for Backbone Collections

davidgtonge — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:17:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/davidgtonge/backbone_query

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3500851

Points: 11

# Comments: 2