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pfzero··on Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?
But why do you need an alternative to node in the first place?
pfzero··on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
I wish there was a serious conversation on how a browser can be productivized and make actual profits. I think that model has the best chances of working out over the long-term in guarding user's privacy - at least for those users willing to pay for it.

Most (all?) companies which developed a browser have lax policies on data privacy. At most those are inline with major directives like GDPR. However, it's not in their best interest to protect / not leverage user data. So the real discussion should've been about the set of features that would attract a sufficiently large user base who would pay ~10$ per month subscription in order to make the model sustainable on the long-term.

pfzero··on Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis
I see, I never understood why quote data are so costly (read - aren't free).

So how does [name redacted] differentiate to others in the market - eg. Yahoo finance?

pfzero··on Created a free website that simplifies stock analysis
Last time I tried building a software around stocks, the major pain I had was the lack of affordable APIs that would give quotes in almost real time.

Almost all APIs I checked had a significant pricing. I'm wondering where does this website takes the data from and what's the price for it.

pfzero··on Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?
I think that this website gives a great study roadmap for computer science: https://teachyourselfcs.com

You should definitely consider choosing some topics from the and study them.

pfzero··on Google to drop chrome apps in favor of progressive web apps
Yeah, that's a very good point imo!
pfzero··on Prettier 1.0
How is prettier compared to vscode autoformat feature?
pfzero··on The broken promise of Web Components
I think your native web components example is wrong, or more probably outdated.

Here's an example with the latest wc spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sl...

But as far as I understand from the spec, sadly, you would still need a separate DSL that would leverage iterations, conditionals and other templating operations on top of web components.

pfzero··on The most popular programming languages in 2017
I'm not sure if there's a bias in the results. But it seems that there shouldn't be any bias towards a particular programming language since they have an algorithm for computing the scores based on search queries on popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc.

> Go moving from 54th to 13th most popular is pretty astonishing. I second that and although I've done a number of side projects using golang, if I want to make a presentation of the language , I wouldn't quite know for sure what are the best selling points.

I know it puts a great emphasis on concurrency and their model is rock solid and easy to reason about, but still, given that most of our work is web related and 95% of the time we have to manipulate various resources that persist to some database, I don't have a clear reason on why to choose go over php for example.