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plexicleon Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating

RCs should IDEALLY not have breaking changes. You can dice it up any way you want, but it wasn't a final build and there were obviously some rough edges.

Angular 2 is final now and they've committed to no more breaking changes until the next major build (at least 6 months away). If s/he started learning with it today, then ~90% of what s/he was complaining about in this post wouldn't have been a thing. That was my only point.

plexicleon Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating

I don't think the idea of "planned" breaking changes every 6 months to be such a bad thing. A major release twice a year that you can upgrade to when you're good and ready.

Sounds like a way to prevent having to completely rewrite from the ground-up to keep up with the web a la angularjs.

I like React because it's a lot smaller but I totally see the advantages of Angular 2 and I kinda dig the major release cycle.

plexicleon Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating

Your first foray into web development and you picked a large, unfinished (it wasn't final) framework to learn with? Then you are complaining that there were breaking changes you had to deal with?

I get your beef with the ecosystem, but this is a very unfair knock on Angular 2. Angular 2 was not the problem here at all.

Am I missing something obvious?

plexicleon Angular 2 Final Released

Don't have a dog in the fight-- I'm using both React and Angular2 in production. I just wanted to add that create-react-app (which was built by a few guys over a weekend or something like that?) I found to be IMMENSELY more useful than angular-cli.

I know a lot of work has been put in to angular-cli and it's been through a few iterations at this point, but I almost wish they would scrap the whole thing and fork create-react-app.

plexicleon Visual Studio Code 1.5

Opening a newly cloned Chromium repository in ~3s is very impressive to be honest.

plexicleon Fuchsia, a new operating system

When did they "affirm" that? They've said a couple times that "Java at this time is the only way to build apps," etc. They never ruled it out for the future, AFAIK. Please feel free to prove me wrong, but I would honestly be surprised if you found anything.

Having been to the last several I/Os where the question is asked at the fireside chats, the answer has always been "right now...". No one is saying dump Java, but if we could get some native hooks through something like Dart, that would be pretty awesome.

plexicleon Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts

I wonder if the same people would say that Atom or Visual Studio Code is a "web app."

plexicleon Yakyak: Electron Chat Client for Google Hangouts

All of my friends, family and co-workers use Hangouts. It's the only messenger I'm using.

plexicleon Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

Hello there. I love Firebase. Use it every day.

The one big request I've always had was to be able to grab the client's IP address on request. Is that possible with this new Firebase and GCE integration?

I have many Firebase apps. Most of them have an intermediate server solely for this one reason.

plexicleon Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

Authentication is built-in. You can authenticate users and give them specific access with a JSON-like file that lives on the server. It actually works wonderfully.

plexicleon New Sublime Text update

This may or may not matter to you, but VSCode and Atom are open-source.

That means a lot to me, but I understand that some people won't really care.

plexicleon Electron 1.0 is here

Takes about 5 seconds to install a theme to your liking if you don't like the default one. I happen to dig it, personally.

plexicleon Introducing Ozlo – Personal AI chatbot

Oh, whoops. I signed up but didn't realize it was only for iOS. That's unfortunate, I was interested in checking it out. I should have read more before clicking the link, that's on me.

plexicleon Angular 2 Style Guide

"both supporting actual Javascript (even JSX isn't necessary)."

Oh, come on now. If JSX isn't necessary, then neither is TypeScript. Have you tried writing React components without JSX? Angular2 in ES5 is saner.

I get that neither is ideal, but let's be real here.

plexicleon Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

I don't really play games on Android, so that's the main one I can think of.

But consider all of the great games that are ported natively to Android. Several Final Fantasy games, Chrono Trigger (my personal favorite). If the keyboard mapping is solid, that could be a really big deal. I know I'm in opinion territory here, but I'm pretty excited. Your question is fair though.

plexicleon Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

Why? ChromeOS is so much better. This is coming from an ardent Android user. Just curious why you would want to see Android instead?

ChromeOS has potential to become a productive platform. I don't really see Android ever becoming that. They are two different beasts.

plexicleon Google Play Store and “over a million apps” could be headed to Chrome OS

Indeed. And also big platform games-- consider Hearthstone (Blizzard), etc.

plexicleon Google I/O 2016

It sounds like you have beef with your phone manufacturer and/or carrier. Your anger with Google is entirely misplaced.

plexicleon Google I/O 2016

Schedule was released about an hour ago.

plexicleon Atom text editor 1.7.0 released

Code is noticeably faster than Atom on both my Linux and Windows machines.

While that's my personal experience, it matters the most to me. Makes the decision easy... for the moment.

plexicleon Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be

Site looks great. Loving that it's Polymer.

plexicleon The new Google AdWords uses Dart – we asked why

I have really been digging Dart lately. This is great news, too! Can't really get bigger validation than this.

Angular 2 with Dart is pretty incredible as well. It was a breath of fresh air not needing to worry about bundling/module loaders, etc.

plexicleon Ubuntu on Windows

Hi. Do you mind linking one?

Thanks. :)

plexicleon Google Is Finally Redesigning Its Biggest Cash Cow: AdWords

It's also written in Dart! Wonderful to see if you ask me. Doesn't deserve a lot of the flack it gets. I actually enjoy using it.

plexicleon Tay – Microsoft A.I. chatbot

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712730047669350400

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712730401572134913

Interesting. Can't see how this could go bad.

plexicleon Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

Well, that's good at least. Must have been very recent, I was talking to support only a couple weeks ago.

plexicleon Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta

Oh, are you kidding me? Man I got so excited when I saw the title, I already spammed the link to a couple buddies. I should have read it first.

I want real GAE. Not managed VMs. I want to be able to spin up a quick GAE version on a deploy, and if it doesn't get the traffic to scale up, then it just sits there and doesn't cost me anything.

Managed VM has 2+ instances running all month and is an incredible PITA to spin down if I need to temporarily. (The current workaround is to deploy a non-VM app and set that as default, which is just insane.)

GAE apps based on Managed VMs need a free quota as well. I have many apps but some of them don't do much most of the time. A couple will spike hard randomly. I don't mind paying when it does. I like the security that if/when something really takes off, GAE has my back.

In the meantime, I'll stick to Go on GAE. I'd love to be able to use Node, but things add up quickly if I have a couple hobby apps.

I'm glad that they are pushing Node and I'm a HUGE fan of the Google Cloud. I just really want Node as a native GAE thing.

plexicleon React Makes You Sad?

Thank you very much. That post was very helpful!

plexicleon React Makes You Sad?

That looks perfect! Does it minify/concat? I will dive deeper this evening in any case. Thanks!

plexicleon React Makes You Sad?

Thanks! I'll take a look tonight.