adamnemecek

This was the announcement https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-tsp/

React is kinda shit.

Legit the only sensible person in AI.

This is not something you can hide like that, people notice cameras being installed.

Support for custom types is not there.

There is some unstability yes.

For me the larger problems were the lack of types which in practice meant that I was running into the same problems as with bash.

We are on the same page then.

I was a big fan of Nushell for some time but has the same problems as unix shells. I have this CLI tool that manages a lot of things for me (a big one is downloading and cataloging arxiv papers, it downloads them and tags them with metadata and gives each PDF a proper filename based on the author's name and publication year). I tried building this in Nushell but it became eventually so painful.

Something like that yes. The endless parsing and reparsing that you need to do in the unix shells is such a pain.

Looking at things like this

```

let result = try await Subprocess.run(

  .name("ls"),

  arguments: ["-la"],

  output: .string(limit: 4096)

)

print(result.standardOutput)`

```

reminds me that macOS could really use something like powershell (I know you can run powershell on macOS) where you pass around structured data, rather than the endless parsing and reparsing. This is mostly a feature of the shell but you do need some language infrastructure to accomplish it.

It's easy to be dismissive when it's this early.

Dude the writing is on the wall, git had a good run but it's time for something else. Lore is also solid.

It is not a coincidence that the author's nickname, Boz, is so close to Bozo the Clown, only a clown could write this.

Is Ruby really where it's at right now?

> He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education

I hope it does.

Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.

If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.

Seems kinda underwhelming considering they raised like $400M.

You can export typst as latex.

> I haven't met anyone who knows Typst even exists.

It was released in 2023 and became polished enough to use like last year. Yeah, adoption takes time but the technology is significantly better.

> The problem is also momentum. Do you rewrite 30 years' of CTAN contributions, internal templates/styles and the toolchain off and start again or not?

With latex you have to rely on third party. With typst you can write it yourself (or with an agent), like writing functions is not painful in typst.

That is like saying "Ruby is not slow, you can write native extensions in C". No, Markdown is not extensible.

> It's cool sure, powerful also... but when anybody has access to both vector-based editor and raster-based editor ... but also tools that incorporate them, e.g. rich text editors ... but also entire toolchain going from compilers to libraries all the way to Web based notebook with their editors and running environment that can then output printable artifacts, I don't think there has to be "the" way. They might be a more popular way within a certain zeitgeist but... does one project has to "replace" another one?

cool, why do you think people use tikz? And like generating images programmatically from text is impossibly more powerful than using vector editors.

The problem with markdown is that it's not extensible and that there is no spec. Essentially all READMEs would be better off using typst, they would make for better READMEs.

Typst is the most important open source project of the last 5 years.

I predict a future where markdown and latex are largely replaced by typst. And I couldn't be more excited.

It is such a stepup from markdown and latex. Try it today if you are intrigued.

This looks really good. I have been using git to store some PDF (tens of GBs) and git is really not well suited for this. No GFS is not a solution.

Almost exactly a year ago, I made the switch from generating LaTeX from markdown using pandoc to typst. Best decision I have ever made. I can actually write my own macros (both LaTeX and pandoc were a pain in the ass).

The ecosystem is not quite a mature as latex, however I can implement the things I need myself.

If you are on the fence, do yourself a favor and try it. There is a VS Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=myriad-d....

It is a killer feature. It tells me I can easily compile and edit the code myself.

They are early versions, wait 4 years.

> For years, AI researchers have used math as a proving ground for their models.

For years?

I feel like it's harder to hide malicious stuff in Rust build scripts.