That's because it's not written in JS at all but a compiled systems language, no wonder it's gonna be fast.
Virtually all JavaScript engines are written in compiled languages. (Most runtimes for that matter nut just JS)
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denismenace commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo
Do you only build stuff that performs financial operations? I'm not sure why sqlite being suboptimal for this one very specific use-case means that sqlite as a whole is a no-go for you.
No, not at all actually. But I had a lot of applications where at somepoint we needed to add storage of currency in the database. It became relevant for billing or other features. This without the app itself being financial in nature.
denismenace commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo
The "SQLite doesn't scale" argument is usually just premature optimization masquerading as architectural wisdom.
Unless you are actively hitting WAL contention limits (which is surprisingly hard to do on modern NVMe), the operational simplicity of a single binary beats the "scalability" of a distributed mess any day.
We’ve normalized a complexity tax where every side project "needs" a dedicated DB cluster and a Redis cache. Pocketbase proves that for 99% of CRUD apps, the bottleneck isn't the database—it's the network latency and the developer's time spent managing k8s manifests.
Personally the lack of a decimal type make SQLite a no-go for me. Its too much of a hassle to do financial operations completely on the application side.
Great idea, I think there should be some conditions.
a) you should not be the owner (to avoid pet projects that are not actually useful) of the project or at least not the sole owner
b) ideally it should be some high impact projects that have little to no corpo sponsors as opposed to something like React
c) if your contribution is not merged in, it should not count as "work done"
Would Linux count as a project with corpo sponsors?
I've worked with .NET for over 10 years and we built our startup on top of it. Here are my thoughts:
Pros:
* Stability
* Very decent standard library
* Good balance between productivity and robustness
* Great package management
* Extremely easy to upgrade, so essentially free goodies (performance) every year or so
Cons:
* Very MSFT dominated (obviously)
* Subpar tooling outside of Windows (I'm looking at you C# Dev Kit)
* C# has way to many features, it feels bloated
* Culturally, it feels like .NET devs are less "passionate" about their work
* The freaking stigma of being a .NET dev: you will never be as cool as the guys who work with Node/Python/whatever
Edit: Also I'd like to add EFCore as one of the pros of the ecosystem. Hands down the best ORM. Others don't come close.
Why is EF regarded as such a good ORM? I've encountered countless bugs in different repos related to its stateful nature after many years in .NET. Personally I found it completely illogical for my ORM to maintain state. I just want it to hold my schema and build queries.
Did it change during our life time?
denismenace commented on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
As compared to the European roads that are half the width of US roads?
Yes, european roads are not as wide, since they make place for proper sidewalks and bike lanes. Another advantage is that narrower roads make drivers drive more carefully and slowly, reducing accidents even further.
So like Bitcoin?
Not the same, since if you buy Bitcoin, you don't have partial ownership of the machines used to mine and also these machines being used for a singular purpose which you cannot change.
denismenace commented on What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers roxeem.com/2025/09/30/wha... · Posted by u/roxeem
> C# is, imo, the best cross platform GC language. I really can't think of anything that comes close
How about F#? Isn't F# mostly C# with better ergonomics?
He means the runtime ".NET CLR". They have the same runtime.
denismenace commented on Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf] cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs... · Posted by u/fanf2
I think in the end step by step functional programming will be widely adopted. Concepts that have a strong theory behind them tend to last longer. Similar to how relational databases and SQL are still the gold standard today.