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Came here to say exactly this. Since when was being a nerd about consumer preferences?

But then I start wondering if we are just gatekeeping nerddom?

Correct

> Europe is a union of 27 sovereign nations

I guess the Swiss, British, Norwegians, Albanians etc etc are not welcome to participate in this project.

EDIT: In any case this whole thing is stupid. Open source and privacy matters, not country of origin.

Algebraic data types please. When you programme in Haskell, you use them all time, and yet support is missing in so many languages. It's one of the things that makes Swift look attractive to me.

Analytic philosophy: What is it like to be a bat?

Continental philosophy: What would it be like to live among the marginalized in a community of vampire squid thousands of leagues beneath the surface of the sea?

So if I sell project management software for the construction industry, I should pivot to... selling houses?

I guess you don't want kids to go to the beach either, where the standard attire is even more "revealing" ?

the main reasons for my preference are that: gmail/fastmail are simple, I can use from multiple computers easily, have good defaults and most importantly, they almost always work. Outlook users seem to constantly have something broken.

I do realise that i am reaping the benefits of a centralised system, and in the case of gmail, monetised by advertising, surveillance and user lock-in. Probably the ideal for me would would be a self-hosted web client, e.g. Mailcow

> Spoiler alert: we didn’t get app-like performance. We didn’t get better user experiences.

Not sure about that, I'll take Gmail and fastmail any day over outlook and evolution

They launched in 2016

This may be too early to ask, but are you targeting a near-v8 level of performance? Or more like quickjs or duktape?

> Nomi joins your video calls

How will you obtain consent for this from everyone participating in the call?

In the beginning, when you read papers like this, it can be hard work. You can either give up or put some effort in to try to understand it. Maybe look at some of the other Jepsen reports, some may be easier. Or perhaps an introductory CS textbook. With practice and patience it will become easier to read and eventually write like this.

You may not be part of that world now, but you can be some day.

EDIT: forgot to say, i had to read 6 or 7 books on Bayesian statistics before i understood the most basic concepts. A few years later i wrote a compiler for a statistical programming language.

The Gettier examples disagree!

The CoffeeScript rails clone? Seems an unlikely inspiration for this

What is Batman? My Google skills are failing

Serious question: why Rust? Sounds like this is not exactly systems level programming or any user would suffer from or even notice garbage collection latency.

Is Rust building up a decent ecosystem now for application programming? When I tried developing in Rust I came to the conclusion that you pay a heavy price for not having a garbage collector. Was I doing it wrong?

Didn't know Max Weber was lurking on HN.

> your Danish language setting in Croydon screams "I VPN to Copenhagen for overpriced pastries."

First time an LLM made me laugh

There's a great YouTube channel that has a lot to say about this: carefree wanderings (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEuIogVV2Mv6Q1a3nHIRsQ).

The idea is that after first sincerity, and then authenticity, we are moving into a new identity generating technology (in the philosophical sense of the word technology) called "profilicity" which is focussed on curating a profile across a variety of media channels. This profile is more multifaceted than an authenticity and is created or evolved with deliberate intent.

> type hints are a thing even with plain JS

Can you clarify how you do this? the type annotation TC39 is not approved; but I'm interested in hearing if you have a "userland" approach that works for you?

The author never actually says what is so wrong with JavaScript. I think it is quite a good dynamically typed language, and it certainly has some very high-performance implementations. If you don't like it, just use something else?

> Ultimately, JavaScript was the right thing at the right time. It ended up being folded, spindled, and mutilated to serve purposes that it isn’t well suited for

Counterpoint: many quirks in the language were addressed, e.g. introduction of === and with ESLint you get many of the practical advantages of a type checker. And when you need more safety, sprinkle TypeScript on top.

What I really want for Christmas is a TypeScript-to-native compiler.

I admit it was an exaggeration for comic relief, but many projects have definitely not gotten to working prototype because devs wanted to use something fancy

Although i have to say i always found the concept of low-code silly. All code should be low code, and i think rails is actually a very good example of that.

If you are asking "well we could build this in 2 hours with low-code or 8 hours with rails" - then you are not the target market for low-code. To be able to build a rails app in one day takes years of skill and education and maturity. A lot of people or organisations want to build apps but don't have that expertise.

Also, I don't see what is wrong with the outcome that at some point you have to rebuild with code. You have spent not very much time to develop a prototype that was able to get some feedback and come up with new ideas. Maybe that very revolutionary idea about the reservations app the author describes would never have imagined if they didn't have a prototype to play with?

And don't even get me started on the risks of traditional software engineering. How many projects never even got to a viable prototype because devs decided to rewrite everything in flavour-of-the-month every 3 weeks?

> Does anyone bother what IBM or CapGemini or Accenture or Deloitte or whatever think?

Exactly those companies are literally pumping out "thought leadership" that people and companies with $$$ are lapping up.

> IBM created PCs as we know them and is currently worth $214Bn, yet nobody cares much about them

"Nobody" except the people paying the revenue to support a $216B valuation. Hello HN bubble, you are all clever and innovative people and I love all of you but you are not everyone.

Also, I hate the future where the web is powered by managed solutions .

> they are also dramatically easier to launch and operate

They are also are easier to get kicked off for no reason that can be appealed to a real human being

Yes, thank you, and this is the recorded live streams: https://www.youtube.com/@saltcorn/streams