I just wanted a custom action when I right click on a file (or multiple files) in the file tree - uh-oh, sorry, you can't have that.

Basically all text editors should be extensible. Emacs and vim, Notepad++ or Sublime - this is one of their core features. Do I need to explain this to the HN crowd?

GPU acceleration is nice, and in general, the whole basic editing experience is quite nice. But lack of extensibility is just a punch below the belt.

Maybe Zed 2.0 will be worth another look.

Otherwise Kate or Gedit are just fine for Linux.

No T-shape cursor keys?!? Lame. No love. No want. Go home.

Thinkpad FTW. Sorry.

Problem is, from a technical point of view, what kind of made sense back then (most people running desktops, fans always on, energy saving minimal) is kind of stupid today (even if your laptop has no fan, would you want it to be always generating heat?)...

I definitely want my laptops to be cool, quiet and idle most of the time.

Exactly my conclusion, unfortunately I'm too old to pivot now, but anyone in their junior-to-mid days as a software developer should consider this pivot.

And this is only about generating source code in a closed environment. All hell will break loose when Openclaw et al get in the hands of average users...

I used to be an avid reader as a child, even as a teenager. That was a long time ago. I'm looking forward to that time when I will have the mental capacity to read long prose again.

> Everything was ruthlessly sacrificed to cut costs, including pilot safety.

If we translate this analogy back to AI driven software development, what would be the equivalent of "pilot safety"?...

Your original architecture was a kludge to start with, it was a self-inflicted wound. This is probably the craziest part:

> We’d tried a few things over the years - optimizing expressions, output caching, and even embedding V8 directly into Go (to avoid the network hop).

I know hindsight is 20/20 - but still, you made the wrong decision at the start, and then you kept digging the hole deeper and deeper. Hopefully a good lesson for everyone working with microservices.

To end on a more positive note, I think this (porting code to other languages/platforms) is one use-case where AI code generation really shines, and will be of immense value in the future. Great reporting, just let's not confuse code generation with architectural decisions.

Truly exceptional indeed. You are basically on par with China.

There is a large group of people (maybe even the majority?) who, as soon as they get in a car, MUST immediately turn on the radio or some kind of extra noise source. Is this some kind of a Pavlovian reflex?

I'm always amazed by this, as my car is one of the few places where I have actual control over my environment (unlike on public transport, or at my workplace, or even in my home - neighbours can be noisy...). We are living in a sea of unwanted noise, bombarded by constant ads and "music", so it is nice to have a place of "quiet".

I'm not sure I am missing first class delegation much (not a lot of UI projects in Java these days).

But interfaces with default (and static) method implementations are actually quite usable as traits / mixins. Since Java 8 IIRC.

You can also pass around functions / lambdas (coincidentally also since Java 8) to compose functionality together. A bit harder to follow and/or understand, but another perfectly legitimate and very powerful tool nevertheless.

In reality, dithering can only help you so much, when you have gigantic pixels and 16 colors... It is a remarkable feat what they achieved despite the limits of EGA, but it can't really compare to VGA.

...which seems to suggest that the authors themselves don't dogfood their own software. Please tell me that Codespeak was written entirely with Codespeak!

Instead of that json, which is so last year, why not use an agent to create an MD file to setup another agent, that will compile another MD file and feed it to the third agent, that... It is turtles, I mean agents, all the way down!

My suspicion has always been some kind of a memory leak, but memory corruption also makes sense.

Unfortunately, Chrome (which I use for work - Firefox is for private stuff) has NEVER crashed on me yet. Certainly not in the past 5 years. Which is odd. I'm on Linux btw.