friedman23 (u/friedman23)

friedman23 commented on Cample.js: Reactivity without virtual DOM github.com/Camplejs/Campl... · Posted by u/Cample

I’m always happy to see React alternatives but I’m not convinced HTML and CSS inside JavaScript was a good idea.

friedman23 · 3 years ago

The alternative is a custom DSL for templating which I find much worse. Even CSS has a DSL for conditional and programmatic logic which I only use because of the immense performance benefits it brings.

friedman23 commented on Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again · Posted by u/jb1991

friedman23 · 3 years ago

There is no purely fun way to build a production app. If there were everyone would do it. The hard part of building an app is the slog through the tedious parts. If you just want to build a toy app for fun, I recommend you just mess around with processing or pygame.

friedman23 commented on Meta to ask many managers to become individual contributors or leave bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/thm

switchbak · 3 years ago

The vast majority of the managers I've worked with wouldn't be particularly good ICs, not so sure of the wisdom of this move. Maybe it's a way to slow roll a bunch of layoffs.

friedman23 · 3 years ago

> The vast majority of the managers I've worked with wouldn't be particularly good ICs, not so sure of the wisdom of this move.

The point is that the company doesn't need the managers.

friedman23 commented on The Adoption of Rust in Business rustmagazine.org/issue-1/... · Posted by u/xrayarx

zozbot234 · 3 years ago

> It took me probably more like 1-2 months to really understand how to code in Rust. I do not think a typical team of JS/Python devs would be productive in 3 weeks. I think it would be more like 3 months.

This is actually a very fast learning curve. Imagine a typical Python/JS developer becoming proficient with real, production-quality C++ in 3 months? The very notion seems ludicrous to even think about. So the Rust folks are not wrong when they point out that Rust is about empowering developers and enabling higher quality software across the board.

friedman23 · 3 years ago

Fair point! I've tried to learn and failed c++ 4 times (I knew C, python, typescript, java), I learned rust in a month after reading a 700 page book.

friedman23 commented on Stable Attribution stableattribution.com... · Posted by u/mkeeter

josephg · 3 years ago

That’s a sloppy answer. Right and wrong isn’t defined by how copyright law is written right now.

That’s kind of the whole point of this debate. Should we change the laws and if so, how?

friedman23 · 3 years ago

> Right and wrong isn’t defined by how copyright law is written right now

It's a good thing I never mentioned right or wrong.

friedman23 commented on We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60% doordash.engineering/2023... · Posted by u/wallflower

taytus · 3 years ago

I apologize if this comes out as negative, but it truly is an honest question.

They are a tens-of-billions company. Why is this news? Shouldn't this be just part of doing business?

friedman23 · 3 years ago

It's their engineering blog... This is what engineering blogs talk about and you are on hacker news where things like this are of interest.

friedman23 commented on Stable Attribution stableattribution.com... · Posted by u/mkeeter

gitfan86 · 3 years ago

This is no different than professional calligraphers losing their jobs because of the printing press and then later due to customizable fonts on printers.

I have a ton of respect for calligraphers and believe they are artists, but at the same time I don't think that the millions of people who create custom fonts or use custom fonts are doing a bad thing.

friedman23 · 3 years ago

It's completely different. The customizable fonts did not violate copyright.

friedman23 commented on The Market for Lemons infrequently.org/2023/02/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

simonw · 3 years ago

Nobody is trying to convince you to build a chess app that doesn't use JavaScript.

More importantly, Alex is not arguing for you not to build things with JavaScript either!

He's arguing against writing inefficient JavaScript where you ship MBs of code to the browser to serve simple functionality.

Scroll to the footnotes and you'll find a big list of JavaScript frameworks which Alex does recommend, because they optimize for performance and low overhead.

friedman23 · 3 years ago

What do Solid, Svelte and Vue bring to the table exactly? None of those frameworks solve the dataflow problem and the performance benefits they bring do not make a dent. Also why would I want to use some DSL for html templating when I could use an actual programming language?

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