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New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go"

rubenvanwyk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:46:20 +0000

Very excited every time I see cross-platform GUI in go.

I think the right mental model is that Gova is to Fyne like DaisyUI is to TailwindCSS??

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go"

rubenvanwyk — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:45:28 +0000

I think styling and ready-made components out of the box?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better"

rubenvanwyk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:55:54 +0000

Do you have a newsletter or how should we know when C# will be available?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)"

rubenvanwyk — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:30:06 +0000

I think Microsoft Orleans, Erlang OTP and Scala Play are probably most famous examples in use today.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "High-Level Is the Goal"

rubenvanwyk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:11:48 +0000

So from what I understand…

Someone needs to build Qt’s successor, probably with more beginner-friendly declarative semantics (akin to HCL or Cue) and probably with syntax closest to YAML or Python (based on learning curve, beginner readability etc).

The backend will probably have to be something written in Zig (likely) or Nim (capable, less likely) and will probably have to leverage OpenGL/Metal, WebGL and WASM.

Obviously a massive undertaking, which is why I think the industry has not reached consensus that this is what needs to happen. The less ideal options we have now often gets the job done.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "High-Level Is the Goal"

rubenvanwyk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:42:56 +0000

Never heard of PanGUI - glad to see its C#, will have to try it out.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

rubenvanwyk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:01:24 +0000

This should be the top comment. The thing about growth of businesses overall, is that they want outsourced capacity (that’s what employees or contractors are) and that dynamic doesn’t go away because of AI, because like the comment mentioned, it’s not reliable enough in the sense that it can accept high-context vague instructions and ‘figure it out’ like an enterprise developer can.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "You can make up HTML tags"

rubenvanwyk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:52:54 +0000

What did you go with?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation"

rubenvanwyk — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 09:21:59 +0000

How is Comptime different from default AOT compilation? I assume it can work with third-party libraries that AOT don’t work with yet?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Microsoft Agent Framework"

rubenvanwyk — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:04:46 +0000

.Net is better fit for this than Python for sure?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes"

rubenvanwyk — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:04:28 +0000

How does it compare to https://slatedb.io/ ?

Seems similar ideas, although SlateDB seems a bit more lightweight and using Parquet as primitive (even using Arrow) might mean more compute-heavy on client-side?

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes"

rubenvanwyk — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:03:04 +0000

License does not yet exist? Hope it’s Apache 2.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go"

rubenvanwyk — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:12:36 +0000

Something like Borgo https://borgo-lang.github.io/

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory"

rubenvanwyk — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:15:42 +0000

Also wishing more of these tools use C# on the backend.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

rubenvanwyk — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:46:57 +0000

Wait, do people at scale use NodeJS and Python for services? I assume always it’s Go, Java, C# etc.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "The future of Terraform CDK"

rubenvanwyk — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:32:17 +0000

OpenTofu is already the de facto fork.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Factor 0.101 now available"

rubenvanwyk — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:26:36 +0000

Never heard of Factor but quite intriguing!

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

rubenvanwyk — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:20:26 +0000

The core issue is like you said - responsibility.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "The Origins of Scala (2009)"

rubenvanwyk — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:52:21 +0000

Wanted to get into enterprise-level back-end development in 2025 and was really drawn to Scala, but ultimately learning C# or Kotlin seemed way more practical.

New comment by rubenvanwyk in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

rubenvanwyk — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:34:50 +0000

Very cool, well done!