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Re:Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donal...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:12PM (#48214941)
There is also typst, which is amazing to work with and looks amazing
Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @07:27AM (#48020986)
Side note, but I think using LLMs like this to write PoCs in existing projects is actually a good idea to prove whatever you had in mind is feasible and worth it to pour time into. Obviously you need to not vibecode the entire thing once you're past that point though...
Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
on Monday May 04, 2026 @11:32PM (#48017764)
Even if AI had not been used, the changes would not have been upstreamed, see https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio...
tl;dr the supposed improvements are not sound and the zig compiler has already gotten a whole lot faster
Re:COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:51AM (#47425148)
Interesting, I've seen a bunch of people actually praise modern COBOL.