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Pier Bover

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pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
> I think it might have more meaningful impact on high volume use cases, i.e. where cumulative run time is still significant

For sure but those high volume use cases are extremely rare.

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Now we're getting somewhere. This is a great example because obviously speed depends on the context.

Obviously a shovel is quite an improvement for home gardeners but big constructions need a completely different tool.

For +99% of TS projects going from eg 10ms to 1ms is not going to make any difference even though it's a 10x improvement. In part because most monitors refresh at 60hz (16ms per frame) but even with +120hz monitors this is not going to have an impact on any workflow. Even for CI network latency is going to be a much bigger factor than improving TS compilation beyond the performance that TSGO already provides.

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
do you go to the supermarket with an F1 car?
pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
> Is the TS compiler unbearably slow?

It's not. Even the JS compiler is still fast enough for many projects given the single core improvements in hardware (eg Apple Silicon).

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
TSGO is already plenty fast and overkill for most projects.

Sure the Rust version is faster but the difference is probably only noticeable in the top 1% largest projects.

pier25··on New Apple TV 4K
I only wanted an Apple TV with a better chip and full HDMI audio passthrough.

Instead we got a ton of useless stuff.

pier25··on New Apple TV 4K
Yeah it's way too expensive. I would like to upgrade my 4K ATV to a more powerful chip but not for $300. I only use mine for streaming and already have a home theater Atmos setup. Couldn't care less about Siri, AI features, microphones, etc.
pier25··on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
I too use LLMs to learn different technical topics and generally like them for this. That said I think we’re in the minority. I don’t think most people use these tools to learn.
pier25··on Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware?
> it made it to Zod's main, but not to npm

Thank god. Zod reached like 350M weekly downloads recently.

pier25··on 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
Sure but we need a lot of it.

Population is growing plus electrification of transport plus more energy for compute plus we want to phase out fossil fuels.

pier25··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
Aren't Supabase or Netlify customers of Deno Deploy?
pier25··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
> So Cloudflare killed Deno

Uh no. The lack of users killed Deno.

pier25··on God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser
I wonder how long it'll take until Sony takes this down
pier25··on SvelteKit 3
Yes but if you're using LLMs then surely something with more data available will produce better results?
pier25··on SvelteKit 3
what do you use?
pier25··on SvelteKit 3
I used Svelte daily as my main framework between 2020 and 2024. Took me a couple of years to realize Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it. And not only from the small Svelte team and its community. Eg: Even to this day, the Svelte plugin by JetBrains is trash [2]. If you want to do Svelte you're basically trapped into using their VSCode extension.

Ultimately I ended up moving away to Solid primarily because I can write vanilla TS/TSX. Like it or not, TS/TSX is a standard these days and most editors or IDEs support it out of the box.

[1] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12375-svelte

pier25··on SvelteKit 3
IIRC Svelte 4 only existed to drop support for older browsers?
pier25··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
Someone leaked the IPO prospectus document to Reuters recently.
pier25··on Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs
There's no moat
pier25··on Using any C++ library in Godot
> Godot is only the best open source engine because Bevy is not ready for production

I would argue that even if Bevy was ready for production it would not really compete with Godot.

Godot's performance is plenty for the vast majority of small to medium games. Plus they're starting to work on features like texture streaming for bigger games. It also has an editor which is a big plus for most teams.

Bevy would be objectively better for expensive CPU simulation stuff but realistically what percentage of games need that? Maybe 1%?

For Bevy to catch up on the indie game scene it needs an editor plus a scripting language and/or something like Unreal Blueprints. If it only wants to target the hardcore Rust dev that does everything by code it will never go mainstream.

pier25··on Using any C++ library in Godot
Not sure how relevant this is for this simulation use case but IIRC C# has a bigger overhead when communicating with the core engine compared to GDScript or C++.
pier25··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I think those clicks and pops are a Chromium issue. The Spotify desktop app uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). I use to hear those all the time when using Chrome and they've mostly disappeared now that I mostly use FF.
pier25··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I'm still on Sequoia and waiting for things to get better. Thankfully I don't do dev work for Apple platforms anymore.
pier25··on Sublime Text Build 4213
Sublime was an evolution from TextMate. They even used the TM file formats for snippets and language syntax iirc.
pier25··on Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Dealing with frustration is such a fundamental skill that we should all have learned it as kids.
pier25··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
> Saying that Russia can't defeat them is not the insult you think it is

Well I never said that.

pier25··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
The current situation is completely different to 2022. To begin with Russia is almost exhausted after these years of war.
pier25··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
Russia will never start an open war with the UK or any EU country. They can barely handle Ukraine imagine that plus any other country.
pier25··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
Not in the US.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-co...

As for your second point I doubt it will ever be economically feasible. AI companies cannot generate profits even while stealing their training data.

pier25··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
AI content cannot be copyrighted.
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