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Re:LLMs are still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks on Sunday September 21, 2025 @08:46AM (#45322237)
So are people?
Re:The Helix Text Editor on Thursday September 11, 2025 @04:34PM (#45215863)
I tried to use helix as a vim user, but couldn't get used to the key binds. However I recently found evil-helix, and it's a joy. https://github.com/usagi-flow/evil-helix
Re:Algebraic Effects in Practice with Flix on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:36AM (#45158518)
The algebraic effect handler pattern is a much simpler mental model than monads. And is transferrable to other languages pretty easily. See something like https://github.com/doeixd/effectively in Typescript
The ability to output JSX between native control flow is the real cool part here's, imo. Besides that it looks kinda like Rezact.
And even if they don't contain a hyphen! You can just <use> <anything> <you> <want>
Re:Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos on Saturday August 23, 2025 @11:35AM (#44996728)
Is there a typescript alternative?
Re:Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:48PM (#44935628)
Paring this with Fil-C would give it a garbage collector for free?
I think your math on the percentage is inverted. If you immediately die it says you're in the top 99%
Re:Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug on Saturday August 02, 2025 @12:46PM (#44769090)
Maybe not a drug. But if the improvements in health come from bio chemical signals, it should be possible to activate those signals without engaging in exercise. Eventually?
Re:Loco 16.0 Is Out on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:45PM (#44642769)
Looks pretty fully featured.
Re:Young Graduates Are Facing an Employment Crisis on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:17PM (#44587420)
Non-citizens still have rights
Are they really with $4T? I find that difficult to wrap my head around
I'd love to use Flix for something. It looks beautiful. But I'm a web dev, and never touch the JVM ecosystem
Re:Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:36PM (#44516133)
They are referring to static non-interactive content (basically images and text) in sites like blogs, marketing site, docs, etc. as opposed to highly interactive, and dynamic components, think Facebook, Figma, etc.
Re:Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:08AM (#44510964)
Client vs server routing
Re:Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @11:06AM (#44510932)
Care to explain?

Astro is trying to position itself in opposition to things like Next.js or Nuxt wich are specifically marketed as application frameworks?

And the architecture is more suited to something like a content site, because of the content collections, built-in MDX support, SSR, image handling, and server routing?

Re:Deno 2.4 on Monday July 07, 2025 @06:06AM (#44488607)
People underestimate the node compatibility that Deno offers. I think the compat env variable will do a lot of adoption. Maybe a denon command or something could enable it automatically? Idk.
Looks really neat! Thanks for building this
Re:I Switched from Flutter and Rust to Rust and Egui on Friday June 27, 2025 @09:07AM (#44396520)
I've personally been really impressed with gpui from the Zed folks.
Most of the modern front end frameworks can handle those use cases.

Solid, Vue, Svelte all have capable SPA frameworks and component libraries

Solid js does basically the same thing as React (building UIs for websites) but the architecture and primitives are slightly different.
Yep. Solid js stays true to js. A div is literally a div. And you can use Solid without jsx, and used tagged templates if you so desire.
I'm a big fan of Solid. It's a very influential community, however it's not widely used. All the pieces are there. I just don't see tons of marketing or real app/product/dx focus from them.

Look out for their upcoming 2.0 release, it's supposedly gonna be something special.

Re: on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:16PM (#43733666)
Well that's bizarre
Re:CSS Custom Functions are coming on Monday March 03, 2025 @09:24AM (#43242022)
I'm confused at all the negativity? I am personally very excited for this feature, it's going to enable one to use less JavaScript,and CSS to accomplish things that should be easy.
Re:Svelte 5 is not JavaScript on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:26PM (#43094609)
React has had a mostly stable API for over a decade
Re:Svelte 5 is not JavaScript on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @12:15PM (#43092290)
I appreciate that the author acknowledged that there must exist some reason(s) for the changes that he is unaware of.

I appreciate Svelte's new architecture, it's going to help people make smaller, faster apps, even it requires you to learn about how it's reactive system works.

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