ioasuncvinvaer (u/ioasuncvinvaer)

ioasuncvinvaer commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon

BobbyJo · 4 days ago

A signal is something you use to discern something in lue of direct information. In the case of docs, just look at them and if they suck, or are good, it doesn't really matter where they came from. That being said, Ill take AI generated docs over no docs, and no docs is very common.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

But how do you know if you can trust the docs if they are AI generated?

ioasuncvinvaer commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon

pixl97 · 4 days ago

I mean, the quality of docs before AI was pretty low quality and forums everywhere were filled with complaints about it, except in the case of a few exceptional pieces of software. If this is the case, just having docs at all seems to be a signal of low quality.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

No! Well written docs are a sign of quality. Obviously AI generated docs make me question whether they are actually correct which makes them useless.

ioasuncvinvaer commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon

throwawaymaths · 4 days ago

> you're much more likely to build confusing, difficult-to-use APIs.

have not found this to be the case with zig in general. you could easily make the opposite argument, that documenting things (especially quirks) can give you license to build confusing APIs.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

I think some documentation and a handful of examples would have helped the author of the article. How is the experience when porting to the new standard library improved by not including documentation?

ioasuncvinvaer commented on I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dum... · Posted by u/begoon

BobbyJo · 4 days ago

Just because and AI produced it doesn't mean it is slop.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

But it is a pretty good signal of low quality.

ioasuncvinvaer commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

basscomm · 4 days ago

Because you can do things with XSLT that you can't do with pure HTML

For instance, I can provide an XML file that is a list of widgets, and then I can use to XSLT to give you a table with the values sorted in some way. I can't do that with plain HTML, I'd have to invoke Javascript or something.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

When you program a list of widgets you can program it against anything though. Whether its xml or html.

ioasuncvinvaer commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

sennalen · 4 days ago

keeping data orthogonal to presentation

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

How is html not data?

ioasuncvinvaer commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

Izkata · 4 days ago

You're thinking of XML, not XSLT. XSLT is a language for transforming XML into other structures.

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

But why would a server send me xml instead of html? From the thread you can see that the servers already serve html so why is there a second way to present that content via xslt?

ioasuncvinvaer commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

youngtaff · 4 days ago

How do you create a HTML RSS feed?

ioasuncvinvaer · 4 days ago

By rendering it on the server and serving it to the client.

ioasuncvinvaer commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

troupo · 4 days ago

> WHATWG have removed features before, e.g. frameset, font, and applet elements from HTML.

font: supported in all browsers https://caniuse.com/?search=font

frameset: supported in all browsers https://caniuse.com/?search=frameset

applet: supported in all browsers https://caniuse.com/?search=applet

> All of them were rarely used and had better alternatives available.