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Re:How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:26PM (#22818290)
https://quicktype.io/ is a nice solution
Re:Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project on Friday April 26, 2019 @01:15AM (#19755019)
You should see a performance boost in the Haskell implementation by compiling with GHC's LLVM backend[0]. Another Haskell ray tracer ran 30 % faster than the native codegen this way[1].

[0]https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/commentary/compiler...

[1]http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/glasgow-haskell-compiler-and-ll...

Re:Would you still pick Elixir in 2019? on Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:38PM (#18840883)
Are you mainly talking about clustering?
Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:58PM (#18754487)
I'm curious if there's anything in particular you prefer in Crystal over Nim. I'm considering both right now.
Re:Firefox 64 Released on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:49PM (#18661245)
If you want the Chrome look with Firefox, check this out: https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox
Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and... on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:38PM (#18222417)
Honestly, I'm using it for it's marketability. I haven't yet found it particularly useful.
Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and... on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:24PM (#18217197)
I haven't tried it, I'm afraid.
Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and... on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:23PM (#18217192)
That's literally in the title. It says METASearch engine, not search engine. I have never claimed it was a search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

Re:Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and... on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:22PM (#18217189)
Thanks, it started out as regular, valid JS, then I figured I might as well convert it to TypeScript, and I did so (perhaps too) quickly. I do plan to add stronger typing later.