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throwingrocks commented on It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)   javascript.tm/letter... · Posted by u/pavelai
siwatanejo · 3 months ago
I actually think that people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript, because it's a way better name (much less confusing, given that this lang doesn't have anything to do with Java anyway). I wish Oracle started suing people to force everyone to use the better name.
throwingrocks · 3 months ago
It’s simply not a better name. If it was, it would’ve caught on by now.
throwingrocks commented on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language   markojs.com/... · Posted by u/ulrischa
CSSer · 4 months ago
I remain convinced that RSC and the SSR craze was a result of someone (or multiple) people needing a raise and their friends wanting to start a company selling abstract compute. Statically hydrated, minimal React was pretty great when served over good CDN infrastructure. Then I watched the bundle sizes and lock-in balloon. That second article is a dragon slayer. It really lays out the problem with React. In marrying itself to Next.js and embracing the server, it's betrayed the platform. Meanwhile, the platform itself has matured. React practically built my career, and I just don't have a reason to choose it anymore.
throwingrocks · 4 months ago
SSR isn’t a craze. Web applications have been served that way for literal decades now.
throwingrocks commented on Hard Rust requirements from May onward   lists.debian.org/debian-d... · Posted by u/rkta
uecker · 4 months ago
I think the spin that Rust is necessarily the way forward is what is wrong. IMHO Rust has severe problems and what is considered "modern" is mostly taste. We have seen the same thing in the past with a push towards C++, Java, managed languages. What is new is that the free software movement is now controlled so much by corporate interests that some of these changes are pushed through aggressively against the interests of other parts of the community. In the past, if you wanted something changed and there was no agreement, you created a fork and if it was truly better it was eventually adopted by the majority. Nowadays, the companies which fund most of the development aggressively pursue their interests and the part of the community that disagrees is forced out. This justified by with suitable propaganda "not willing to adapt", etc. The whole point of free software should be that I do not have to adapt to some companies's idea of what is modern, if I do not want to. This is why I fled from Microsoft.
throwingrocks · 4 months ago
> The whole point of free software should be that I do not have to adapt to some companies's idea of what is modern, if I do not want to.

This hasn’t changed.

throwingrocks commented on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time   adventofcode.com/2025/abo... · Posted by u/vismit2000
TeMPOraL · 5 months ago
Hate to be the... whoever I'm being right now, but names have meaning. It's the reason to have them in the first place.

> Advent of Code isn't about there being 25 puzzles, and so maintaining volume at all costs has nothing to do with it.

It's the Advent of Code. Not "Random late year event with no religious / commercial tradition connotations whatsoever" of Code. The 25 is there in the name. It's the whole point :).

throwingrocks · 5 months ago
Geez. Do you really think the number matters? I would be grateful to the creator even if it was 3 days.
throwingrocks commented on Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook   github.com/sirbread/spell... · Posted by u/sirbread
thaumasiotes · 5 months ago
> summon the result with essence of through ritual amplify with power

This is not natural language.

throwingrocks · 5 months ago
Literal eye roll. It’s close enough.
throwingrocks commented on Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/Earw0rm
submeta · 5 months ago
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the negative effects of inflammation. Recently, I came across an article arguing that it’s inflammation in the blood vessels (not cholesterol itself) that causes cardiovascular problems.

Now this article blaming inflammation for cancer.

But isn’t inflammation also a useful and necessary process in the body? If it’s so harmful, should we all be taking anti-inflammatory drugs? Of course, those have their own downsides too (my doctor mentioned that ibuprofen can even affect hearing).

throwingrocks · 5 months ago
The article touches on this by framing chronic inflammation (e.g. exposure to air pollution over years) as the problem.
throwingrocks commented on Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle   deno.com/blog/javascript-... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah
throwingrocks · 6 months ago
Surprised by the amount of mentions of ECMAScript here. It’s the worst possible name to me.
throwingrocks commented on DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components   daisyui.com/... · Posted by u/a_bored_husky
throwingrocks · 8 months ago
> instead of writing 100 class names for every element, every page, every project, again and again…

I'm turned off from daisyUI with marketing like this. The alternative to daisyUI certainly isn't this.

I use Tailwind in a similar way that daisyUI does: by putting my utility classes in components and reusing the components.

daisyUI's value prop is that not everyone wants to do this for their custom design system. They should just stick to that instead of making false claims.

throwingrocks commented on We're all CTO now   jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/fside
izacus · 8 months ago
Well, AI absolutely appeals to the type of bulkshitter which hates coding and wants to get away from it.
throwingrocks · 8 months ago
> bulkshitter

With all due respect, this perspective baffles me. Some see it your way, others see so much opportunity.

throwingrocks commented on We're all CTO now   jamie.ideasasylum.com/202... · Posted by u/fside
throwingrocks · 8 months ago
> There is a popular argument that a software developer’s job is not write software but to solve a user’s problem. Bullshit

Wait, what?

> I was never particularly interested in the code itself

> Instead, I was always more interested in the product

Confusing contradictions aside, I had trouble engaging with this article.

The author seems to think every developer thinks like they do. Some people actually enjoy helping their business/users.

The author also has trouble imagining other perspectives as a people manager. From the linked article,

> I do not get any sort of high from managing people. I don’t think anyone gets that same high from this role

Hate to break it to the author again, but some people actually enjoy seeing those they mentor/manage succeed.

Being a people manager isn’t the right fit for everyone. Perhaps being a developer in the next 20, 5, or 1 year won’t be the right fit for the same people it is for today.

u/throwingrocks

KarmaCake day163April 17, 2022View Original