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New comment by gdotdesign in "Does anybody like React?"

gdotdesign — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:51:21 +0000

Initially I didn't see the value in React. I thought that the whole virtual DOM compiling on every change was a waste of resources instead of just doing the change itself directly.

But as it turns out it's a great abstraction worth using for the right things (not every part of the web) and one of those are Single Page Applications.

A lot of comments here are about people linking JSX instead of React and that's a good abstraction too. In Mint (https://mint-lang.com/) I'm trying to create a language for SPAs and having HTML syntax helps.

New comment by gdotdesign in "ClojureScript Gets Async/Await"

gdotdesign — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:12:11 +0000

Check out Mint (https://mint-lang.com), it's s language where everything is built in: small to mid size projects can be built without any third party dependencies and JS interop is easy.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker"

gdotdesign — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:05:41 +0000

Thank you for building this.

New comment by gdotdesign in "AI will not replace software engineers (hopefully)"

gdotdesign — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:52:02 +0000

> The pessimistic one is that most of what needed building gets built, and the remaining work fits in fewer hands.

I don't think that's true, mainly because if it were true it would have happened a long time ago. We will never settle on one version of a thing (let it be messaging, recipes, notes, image galleries, etc...). New variants emerge over time, the only thing AI does is accelerate this.

New comment by gdotdesign in "The $LANG Programming Language"

gdotdesign — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:04:21 +0000

*weren't

New comment by gdotdesign in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

gdotdesign — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:11:50 +0000

Yes! I'm very close to releasing 1.0 and I'm planning on doing it then.

New comment by gdotdesign in "The $LANG Programming Language"

gdotdesign — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:50:45 +0000

Thanks :)

I didn't make those threads, so the title choices were mine. I'll do a proper Show HN with 1.0 sometime, maybe with can switch it with that then.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

gdotdesign — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:26:49 +0000

It's perfectly fine to allow if in tags (the compiler can figure it out). In Mint you can do that no problem: https://mint-lang.com/sandbox/6lnZHiG8LVRJqA

    component Main {
      fun render : Html {
        
          if true {
            "Hello World!"
          } else {
            "False"
          }
        
      }
    }

New comment by gdotdesign in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

gdotdesign — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:52:18 +0000

It's nice to see that we are converging on the same syntax I came up for Mint (https://mint-lang.com) 8 years ago (feels strange to write it down). I saw Ripple some time ago its syntax has the same structure more or less (component, style, render, state, etc...)

New comment by gdotdesign in "The $LANG Programming Language"

gdotdesign — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:32:58 +0000

Thanks for putting these lists together. When Mint reaches 1.0 I'll use the same format to present it here.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework"

gdotdesign — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:33:00 +0000

I think so, yes.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework"

gdotdesign — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:53:04 +0000

It's very similar to Mint (https://mint-lang.com/) which I'm building for some time now.

Looking at the samples, it seems Ripple is going the same direction as Mint:

- explicit component definitions

- inlined control flow in HTML tags

- component based styling

- explicit white space handling for element content

- syntax for setting references

I'm not sure why they based it on TypeScript instead of creating a new language completely, since there are a lot of new syntax added (and they have their own extension as well).

If you are looking for something similar, give Mint a try, it has a lot more features, and I'm looking to release 1.0 in the near future.

New comment by gdotdesign in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

gdotdesign — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:50:04 +0000

I'm still waiting to evaluate Zed because I work with/on my programming language which has LSP Semantic Highlighting, but Zed doesn't https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/39539 once it's merged I'll give it a go because it looks like a modern Sublime Text (which I still use). I just wish they would focus on basic editor features instead of adding AI and other non-related features.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"

gdotdesign — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:44:34 +0000

Happy New Year from Budapest!

New comment by gdotdesign in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

gdotdesign — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:44:42 +0000

IMHO, Marko and Mint target different things. Mint was specifically made to create Single Page Applications, whereas Marko seems like more for general all things web.

I'll try to add Marko to the feature comparison page soon: https://mint-lang.com/feature-matrix

New comment by gdotdesign in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

gdotdesign — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:55:54 +0000

Still working on the Mint programming language (https://mint-lang.com/) with a 1.0 release in January :). I'm happy with the current feature set, so I'm just polishing and optimizing where I can and giving the documentation a throughout look.

Mint Programming Langauge – 0.28.0 Released

gdotdesign — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:49:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mint-lang.com/news/quality-of-life-improvements

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46119489

Points: 3

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New comment by gdotdesign in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

gdotdesign — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:45:46 +0000

- There is a single root dependency somewhere which gets overtaken

- A new version of this dependency is published

- A CI somewhere of another NPM package uses this new version dependency in a build, which trigger propagation by creating a new modified version of this dependency?

- And so on...

Am I getting this right?

New comment by gdotdesign in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

gdotdesign — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:50:50 +0000

No it's nor supported currently.

New comment by gdotdesign in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

gdotdesign — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:50:14 +0000

1. Inside style blocks it's pretty much regular CSS except for interpolation and if/case expressions, so you can create a style for the root element and then use ids and classes if you desire, but it won't be optimized.

2. CSS definitions without interpolation compile down to static CSS while the ones with interpolation compile down to CSS variables which are set on the element where the style is assigned. This also allows for passig arguments to styles [0].

CSS nesting is supported and the interpolation doesn't conflict with the id selectors because interpolation is not supported in selectors.

[0]: https://mint-lang.com/reference/styling/arguments