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New comment by dimitropoulos in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:14:48 +0000

> Libraries like Effect have increased the popularity of generators, but it's still an unusual syntax for the vast majority of JavaScript developers.

I'm getting so tired of hearing this. I loved the article and it's interesting stuff, but how many more decades until people accept generators as a primitive??

used to hear the same thing about trailing commas, destructuring, classes (instead of iife), and so many more. yet. generators still haven't crossed over the magic barrier for some reason.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "I was wrong about TypeScript part 1"

dimitropoulos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:34:36 +0000

it's interesting that in this article you see all three: TypeScript, Typescript, and typescript.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "Show HN: StepKit, an open and cross-platform durable execution standard"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:52:13 +0000

with all the hype around durable execution... what makes it difference from job queuing solutions like BullMQ or Agenda.js that rely on DLQ on top of Redis or Mongo? is it just a DX thing?

New comment by dimitropoulos in "It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties""

dimitropoulos — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:45:10 +0000

wow great example - I'm also baffled by this. is this just not a great example because it seems like it's reinventing the wheel

New comment by dimitropoulos in "CSS Meets Voxel Art: Building a Rendering Engine with Stacked Grids – Codrops"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:43:53 +0000

didn't the latest unreal release have something voxel related? cool to see more voxel stuff happening. we've come a long way since the Euclideon "unlimited detail" days.

VST3 and ASIO SDKs now have open source licenses

dimitropoulos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:10:26 +0000

Article URL: https://cdm.link/open-steinberg-vst3-and-asio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747073

Points: 2

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New comment by dimitropoulos in "Helion: A modern fast paced Doom FPS engine in C#"

dimitropoulos — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:16:01 +0000

the Doom in TypeScript types project wouldn't have been possible without Nick and Helion - I owe Nick a huge thanks! He helped with some of the more obscure parts of the engine and also helped make a super small WAD that is what the game eventually ran in.

Legend.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

dimitropoulos — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:12:22 +0000

you're faulting a headline for being precise and accurate. there is no sense in which TypeScript is a runtime. TypeScript is literally a complier (targeting JavaScript, which has runtimes) and nothing more and has always been as such.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "Blackmagic Design raises USA prices 34% due to tariffs"

dimitropoulos — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:40:57 +0000

Most notably: a very prominent camera (the PYXIS 12K) was announced on Friday for $4,995 USD and on Sunday was changed to $6,595. Almost all other prices saw this 34% increase (but only for the US, all other countries are unaffected).

Blackmagic Design raises USA prices 34% due to tariffs

dimitropoulos — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 03:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Blackmagic_News/status/1908740053515591899

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43607411

Points: 5

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New comment by dimitropoulos in "Show HN: AgentKit – JavaScript Alternative to OpenAI Agents SDK with Native MCP"

dimitropoulos — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:12:53 +0000

Thanks for explaining. But I guess I'm still not clear on how the work gets divvied up. Not tryin to be a hater - I'll have to give it a spin - but that part's a bit murky to me still.

TypeScript-go is now a performance benchmark for the Go compiler

dimitropoulos — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 00:01:02 +0000

Article URL: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/benchmarks/+/657077

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358442

Points: 9

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New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:14:46 +0000

thank you for the clarification. you're right. I guess I was just trying to say that it's a spectrum (even if Rust is very very far along the way towards not having any holes). I can't seem to find it but there's some Tony Hoare or maybe Alan Turing quote or something like that about the only 100% correct computer program to ever exist was the first one.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:10:04 +0000

hi! author of the Doom thing, here. while I won't be the one to try, my answer is "absolutely yes, it will make a massive difference". Sub-1-day Doom-first-frame is probably a possibility now, if not much more because actually the thing that was the largest bottleneck for Doom-in-TypeScript-types was serializing the type to a string, which may well be considerably more than 10x faster. Hopefully someone will try some day!

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:42 +0000

did you contribute to the current TypeScript codebase? (not intended snarky, just curious)

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:59:11 +0000

I love Rust, but you can play exactly the same game with Rust: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:48:38 +0000

well, thanks for explaining. we might just simply disagree here. when I hear "TypeScript" I think of TypeScript, and when I hear "JavaScript" I think of JavaScript. I know what you mean re: casually speaking, but this is a blogpost from the TypeScript team. That context is there, too. I think if the same title were from an AWS release note, I'd totally see what you mean.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:46:44 +0000

yes, and TypeScript is not JavaScript. Objectively, every element of _TypeScript_, strictly speaking, is well known to be separate.

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:43:21 +0000

he went into the C# question in more detail this interview: https://youtu.be/10qowKUW82U?t=1154s

New comment by dimitropoulos in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

dimitropoulos — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:41:23 +0000

he went into more detail about C# in this one: https://youtu.be/10qowKUW82U?t=1154s