christophilus
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- christophilusMan. Haven’t thought about Raku for a while. Does it have a good web framework these days?
- > no-fluff … Next.js
Hmm. We can agree to disagree on the definition of fluff.
- I’ve been tempted by MariaDB for this reason. I’d love to hear from anyone who has run both.
- Yeah. I agree the distinction is important, but it’s already been lost. Maybe, we need a new phrase to describe “a product you absolutely cannot trust because I blindly followed a non-deterministic word generator.”
Maybe, “dingus coding”?
- Reversing demographic momentum isn’t so easy. You have a cascade effect which happens, and high costs of a massive elderly population can’t be borne by a sudden baby boom. Also, through the medical system, etc, you can force people to abort their children, but it’s harder to force them to make children.
- I mean, if we’re going to make that comparison, China today looks much more like pre-war Germany and Japan— set on expansion. That’s pretty clearly what the anti-China crowd is worried about. Tibet, Taiwan, Philippine islands, ever expanding naval bases, aggressive displays of power around Australia, prison camps and sterilization programs, and so forth.
- Didn’t the actual Manhattan Project leak to the USSR?
- I think there was a time when the other side truly believed globalization and economic progress would turn the CCP into a democratic ally. Maybe both sides believed that for a while. What you see now is just the fragmented and incoherent remains of a failed philosophy that hasn’t yet come up with a coherent replacement, so we’re left adrift with no rational foreign policy from either side (in my opinion).
- Exactly. That's where this is heading, and the West-- as usual-- is pursuing quarterly profits and forgetting to look up.
- Oh, man. Yes, that’s the one. I had no idea he’d died. :/
- Jai is a real thing that others are using. I wouldn’t say Jon is an ideas guy. He executes.
- He hired a level designer who also wrote a Sokoban game. (Can’t remember the name, but it was free and web-based, IIRC.) That game had some really great, unique ideas in it, and I’d be shocked if the new Blow game was bog standard.
- I hate C++. It’s possibly my least favorite language. Slow compilation, awful mess of ideas scattered around, syntax soup, footguns galore. Typescript has become one of my favorite languages. It’s not perfect, but it’s surprisingly good and pragmatic. JS, on the other hand? No thanks. Static typing is something I never want to do without again.
- I didn’t think it was possible for me to dislike nextjs any more, but here we are. It’s the Sharepoint of the JS ecosystem.
- > 10 years or so
Centuries, really, with only periodic exceptions.
- You can fix a lot of that with a strict tsconfig, Biome and a handful of claude.md rules, I’ve found. That said, it’s been ages since I wrote a line of C#, but it remains the most productive language I’ve used. My TypeScript productivity has only recently begun to approach it.
- Debugging has been excellent for me with Opus 4.5 and Claude Code.
- No. One involves human quality control, and one omits it.
- Time will tell, but I doubt it.
- Help me, Ladybird. You’re my only hope.