vrtcn

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   by vrtcn 2mo ago

   I am a bit suspicious about the choice of startup time as the metric to evaluate performance in Claude Code. With a rewrite from a language like Zig to Rust, my biggest performance concern would be allocation. Where a Zig app might use a fa
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   Predicting an enormous waste of time building UI frameworks with WASM and WebGPU

   37 points by vrtcn 4y ago|17 comments
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   by vrtcn 4y ago

   I refuse to believe that these takes are not clickbait at this point
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   by vrtcn 4y ago

   IMO, this is a product for five years ago, when sites like figma were beyond the capabilities of most machines. Looking five years ahead, most of their potential users (higher income or working at companies able to afford the subscription f
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   by vrtcn 5y ago

   Highly dubious... asking for access to control the computer, asking for email, communicating with their servers. I don't care how much time this would save me, it absolutely isn't worth the risk.
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   by vrtcn 5y ago

   As far as I know, the new concurrency features can be adopted gradually which would make it very simple for developers to transition from the current completionHandler-based model to the new async/await-based model. Every Obj-C UIKit m