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New comment by felixfbecker in "Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be"

felixfbecker — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:57:05 +0000

The author makes the argument that in the age of LLMs more type safe languages will be more successful than less type safe ones. But how does that support the claim that Go is more suitable than JavaScript? TypeScript is more type safe than Go: Go doesn’t validate nil pointers, it doesn’t enforce fields to be set when initializing structs, it has no support for union types. All those things can cause runtime errors that are caught are caught at compile time in TypeScript.

New comment by felixfbecker in "The browser is the sandbox"

felixfbecker — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:23:49 +0000

That is like saying the kernel/sandbox hypervisor can access those things. The point is that the sandboxed code cannot. In browsers, code from one origin cannot access those things from another origin unless explicitly enabled with CORS.

New comment by felixfbecker in "MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes"

felixfbecker — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:37:29 +0000

MCP doesn't force models to output JSON, quite the opposite. Tool call results in MCP are text, images, audio — the things models naturally output. The whole point of MCP is to make APIs digestable to LLMs

New comment by felixfbecker in "SVG favicons in action"

felixfbecker — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:40:35 +0000

An SVG doesn't need to support scripting. When you load an SVG through an tag for example, no