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masterofmiscon I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

Gee, Slashdot. That brings back memories

masterofmiscon Adding Linux GUI app support to WSL is on our roadmap

tumbleweed...

masterofmiscon Ask HN: JavaScript Framework to use with pre-existing HTML

Not sure if it fits your use-case, but if you just want to just throw a couple of react classes on your page, without having to go through all the hassle of setting up a react app (without NPM or WebPack), you could just live transpile react using babel-standalone.

https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-standalone

Apparently sites like JSFiddle use babel standalone for live compilation.

Here is a GitHub Gist example: https://gist.github.com/OceanAirdrop/52b2042da21ef52ac5ead0e...

Just remember to wrap your script tags with the "text/babel" type

masterofmiscon The TypeScript Tax

He asks the question "But should you use it for your large scale app development project?"

I thought that was literally the reason TypeScript came to be. Microsoft were having lots trouble wrangling Bing web app and internal MS devs wanted a tool to help catch the bugs!

I would say, if you are embarking on a large scale app, you most definitely want to include TypeScript from the start. It will pay dividends in the end.

masterofmiscon Blazor – A .NET web framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly

I think Blazor might have a bright future in the Electron space. Its seems to me the stars are all aligning from that point-of-view.

Microsoft have had great success with Visual Studio Code and are now the custodians of Electron since they brought Github this year. Also, now that Microsoft are going all in on Chromium for Windows (and dropping Edge in the process) I wonder if they will introduce Blazor into Electron for better cross platform applications.

I just get the feeling there is a play there (in some fashion)

masterofmiscon The State of Vue

Thanks for your insight and reply.

masterofmiscon The State of Vue

Does anyone know how this compares to http://www.ractivejs.org ? Ractive looks like a simple no fluff framework

masterofmiscon Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords?

Lastpass here! - Been a user for a few years and havent looked back

masterofmiscon Visual C++ 2015 Brings Modern C++ to the Windows API

Its nice to see that C++ has evolved to the point where COM code can be represented with nice easy-to-follow vanilla C++ without making you want to throw up!! (and theres no stupid ^ (hat) symbol in sight)

It looks like Kenny Kerr has a site specifically for this here: http://moderncpp.com/ and a video explaining things here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvh3MePAzKs