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And your point being?

The web and people developing for it still have a long way to go before it's enough for me.

Also if you read the article, the topic is discussed entirely within the context of software development and distribution.

Crazy to say when desktop apps and TUIs are becoming more useful than ever. No the web is not enough, even for something as simple as version control.

We're probably further away now from "web is enough" than we were 5 years ago.

Tell your agent to add some showcases of the features on the landing page.

Impressive how good that rust UI feels in a browser though. Even the text rendering is impressive. Maybe rust really is the future of cross platform web+mobile apps.

> of something that happened to him.

That's not accurate either, and it isn't that simple. Both him and the spy consciously made the decisions that led to this ordeal.

Title is not incorrect, at least by 2026 standards where engagement bait is accepted as long as it's not a complete fabrication.

> the userbase skews ultra-wealthy.

It's a mostly anonymous public forum. The topics covered here aren't anywhere near "wealthy people hobbies" either. It's no porsche forum. It's not even a woodworking forum. Programming is an extremely affordable hobby.

ChatGPT plus or pro

Because a minimum viable GUI is way worse experience than a minimum viable TUI. Also GUIs take more skill in order to feel performant, which many companies do not possess (just look at various documentation webapps that take >100ms just to navigate between really simple mostly-text pages. Horrible).

Good GUIs with full keyboard functionality are definitely better than TUIs though. There's just no guarantee that some solo dev'd GUI for a brand new workflow can meet that standard.

Have you considered zed instead? What does this offer that zed doesn't?

The diff viewing experience in zed is really polished IMO.

For low budget teams with a decent amount of web experience, you'll still ship faster with electron.

Also, testing is easier with electron if your desktop app started life as a web app.

> there is too much FUD about it, IMO.

Yeah it's not as bad as people make it seem, but it's also far from ideal. Especially with how many tools we have nowadays to build performant desktop apps, a company of that size should really not be using electron if they know better.

Discord takes over 2 seconds to launch for me, which is ridiculous for a mostly text-based app.

In fact, there's almost no electron app that feels good to launch. I care very much about having things I interact with on a daily basis feel quick.

It is a product. It already works. Stop crying about people sharing stuff.

> Without Apple hardware, using macOS is less useful to me.

Assuming full hardware compatibility (which I know we're not yet at), there's a bunch of laptops out there today with better feature sets than any sub $1800 macbook.

Being able to dual-boot macOS and linux on a lightweight OLED laptop with a nicer keyboard would be extremely useful. This is before even factoring in the upcoming years of likely substantial hardware advancements in the laptop market. Laptops still have a long way to go before we reach peak laptop.

Agreed. Go with solidstart (who just released a big V2 upgrade a few months back) if you want an extremely elegant solution to async, error handling and heavily concurrent behaviors.

Very easy to setup and way more readable than the equivalent React code.

> No wonder that our pull request comments feel like the dead internet theory right now.

This is the worst part of fully AI-generated code and automated reviews. It's so unnatural, and slightly anti-social, yet I can't figure out what the solution is when you have to ship features at the pace expected the average SWE nowadays.

> Don't these sort of conflict with being "aggressively pro AI"?

I don't think so. AI is broad, and he's against low quality output enabled by people taking shortcuts using AI.

Using AI doesn't make your output worse, that's almost entirely down to lazyness and a lack of skill. Or people are just choosing to spend less time on the same piece of work instead of doing additional iteration and experimentation (which AI makes a lot more doable).

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Ipads have been oled for years now. The samsung galaxy s has literally had an oled for 16 years now. If these screens aged badly, don't you think Apple/Samsung either would've switched away or built more burn-in resistant oleds?

Also brightness degradation on especially a tandem oled is unlikely within its reasonable lifespan. Tandem oleds are the literal peak of display technology for this size of panel. Image quality wise, there's no downside.

Which is more important? Blocking competitors from gaming your price quotes, or making the buying experience instantly better for every single customer and potential customer?

It's their best mac color tied with the imac yellow. The imac green and purple is great too and would look perfect on a macbook air/pro.

Black is 100% the least appealing.

Very high

Which is why "better than existing macbook pros" isn't a selling point. It's already more than good enough.

The parent comment was saying "better sound" as one of the upgrades you get for the $400, which is a comparison to the currently available macbook pros.

How do you think webapps work today? Is macOS UX actually well thought out to begin with? (no)

It's a nonissue when you look at the state of macOS attention to detail nowadays, regardless of which side of the fence you're on.

My guess is so they can wipe the screen without triggering an errant click. Like how you'd lock your phone when wiping oil off the screen.

I've used a few touch laptops. First one was a chromebook 9-10 years ago, and even then I got great use of the touchscreen just doing web browsing or navigating my files/google drive or scrolling through ebooks.

Always enjoyed touchscreens on my laptops. Nice thing is, you can just ignore it when you don't want it. It doesn't affect battery life, or thinness, or brightness, or clarity provided the implementation is good; it's just a bonus input method. I'll never say no to a laptop offering a touch option.

Everybody worried about the usefulness of touch (which I do find occasionally useful), meanwhile they've literally set base pricing at $2900. For a 14 inch mbp, with 24GB. Hilarious.

How on god's green earth is this worth $2900?

I don't own an iphone

Better sound is not really a selling point to anyone in the real world.

IMO, this is a macbook pro but ~200g lighter and with an improved screen that's finally oled. Absolutely NOT worth 2900. An M6 mbp specced to 24GB is $700 cheaper directly on their site. Yeah it's an M6 and not an M5 pro, but I guarantee the performance difference won't matter 99.9% of the time.

$2900 is just ridiculous. So many better options with this budget.

Beautiful website and a breath of fresh air compared to the gitbook/vitepress typical styles these sorts of textbooks often go for.

The docs for ghostty's config file is a lot easier to reason about for one. The built in themes are IMO a lot better in ghostty.

Nowadays, it's also a more fun community. I end up learning things about terminal rendering I never would've otherwise just by reading ghostty-related blogs.