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Many people here seem to think this change will allow for people to package their Linux apps to be portable across distros/distro releases. If this is true then this a great!

On Debian-based distros it kind of sucks when the version of a package is only available in a newer release so the only way to get it is either compile it yourself or upgrade your system.

I remember trying to hack around this once by downloading dependencies from a newer release and helping the program locate them but I think I ran into a issue with the linker version being hardcoded or something and gave up.

Yeah after I read this I looked at the "code". It's a lot of placeholder.cpp with int main(){return};

This is so very sketchy.

I tried the demo. One thing I've noticed is it's sometimes hard to know what operation clicking or dragging something will do (or has done sometimes). I'm not sure what would help other than showing like a pie menu before carrying out the operation.

On the library. It's sounds really cool. I'm going to look at it pretty soon.

I watched the video. I think I've been wanting something like this recently but there's not really a name for this sort of thing that I know of.

Relatedly, I've been working on a step-by-step solver/calculator but I just use sympy (via pyodide) + mathlive. But I'm starting to see the limitations of running Python in the browser and am starting to look at js libraries now.

Even if the research is flawed I'm happy they are trying this. They are taking advantage of LLMs to have less rigid tests and also give feedback.

I think there is more potential applications possible with combining LLMs with reference/text books. Like how about an assistant that points you to the correct books/chapter/paragraph for the concept you need to understand better for a project you are working on? Or clarify any confusion you are having?

Like a human tutor but infinitely patient and non-judgy + search engine.

I like the goal of this. As expected, I don't really understand the math/concept of this. It sounds like it caches some neural network activity and exports it to be run later. So I suppose this can't be used for things like image or video generation.

I don't really know what outerframe frame is. I tried to understand from the video and the blog but I'm still not sure what it is. Is it like a web browser but instead of DOM, HTML and JS you have Swift and SwiftUI running in a sandbox?

If so how would that work on non Apple devices? Also how much will that sandbox protect you?

No, it's just a calculator app. So I guess it's not that crazy of a way to use those together but it sure seemed like it would be before I started tried it.

Congrats on your game it reminds me both of SimCity on the SNES and SimCity 2000 (pc).

I'm also using a cursed stack (deno + pyodide) and it's awesome! Everything works surprisingly well and I can do my Python experiments in a notebook while hot reloading via vite in a browser + quickly try things in the dev console.

It's kind of funny that Modular is getting acquired by a hardware company considering what it's founder has said repeatedly in interviews and articles about how those companies fail to make AI stacks.

* https://www.modular.com/blog/democratizing-ai-compute-part-9...

No. As I understand it, the Raw backed just gives you a Window with input handling and you have to embed something like Skia, WebGPU for the graphics. So basically you have make your widget library yourself.

Now you can just start a server with deno pretty easily and serve a website. But WebUI will actually also manage opening the browser window for you as well a make the communication between backend and frontend just like using a Webview or electron.

I'm happy to see this I see that this provides CEF, Webview and Raw * backbends but it would be nice if there was also a launch in browser option (like WebUI has). To me that has the best tradeoffs if you want to avoid the mess that is webkitgtk but still not ship (and be in charge of updating) a chromium engine with your app.

* https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/backends/

There's also just shipping with a Web interface that opens in a browser (like Jupyter, or WebUI apps). Plus there's the option to use the system Webview like Deno Desktop (this), Tauri and Electrobun do by default.

So thankfully we can still have our REPLs with live reloading and nice documentation (MDN, W3schools etc.) and large library of embeddable UI components without most the costs of using electron.

Deno actually has had a built in compile to binary feature * I've used it before a few times.

* https://docs.deno.com/runtime/reference/cli/compile/

For those interested here * is a similar project that I believe is *not* vibe coded posted a few weeks ago **.

* https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor

** https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228411

Scope being determined by indention makes it easier to paste things in the wrong scope and not notice.

Just adding my respect for the team behind KDE. I left KDE for more resource friendly desktops and window managers around the KDE 4 transition. Then in the last couple of years came back. It's definitely the most feature complete and sane option for Linux desktops.

When they transition to Wayland I'll probably have to move away again as my hardware won't support it but I'll still likely use dolphin as it's a better file manager than all the others.

I know there are people that are used to the indention based scope but that has a real problem when it comes to copy/pasting code. I think a alternative that still looks pretty clean is to do like Ruby and Julia and have the function/class imply begin and have a literal 'end'.

I'm one of those people that prefer vscode (actually I'd prefer just about any editor with a UI designed within the last couple of decades over emacs). Lately I've been thinking about working though a nice Lisp book just because the idea appeals to me.

This is great news!

Hister sounds like a idea I had years ago but gave up on after running into issues with index size taking up way too much storage.

Long ago I've used Searx and really liked it but after some point didn't see the point as opposed to using Google more directly. But lately in the back of my mind I've thinking about checking in on it again.

I also like their AI Overview (though just like all the other LLMs it confidently tells me wrong info all the time). Still I miss when Google was a good information retrieval system where you could give it a string of text and it would find just about anything I was trying to remember having seen somewhere before.

This is my first time hearing about Electrobun it sounds like it could be a good alternative to electron. Their site mention CEF bundling as an option has anyone tried this?

This looks really impressive. How hard was it to implement this in typescript?

Qt Bridges might be better if your project can use the `Qt Design Studio Enterprise license`. Otherwise Slint looks like the better option.

Not that I'd use either when I can just make a Web based UI most of the time and be done with it.

The link says litehtml is C++. I can't tell if it exposes an FFI (I bet not)

Of course blitz doesn't expose a FFI either and also if you need anything interactive you have to use the dioxius framework or implement you own APIs for that as well as take care of animation yourself.

I like to watch 3blue1brown too but I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say his topics are accessible to normal folks. From my perspective I think it's more realistic to say he makes videos that shows you the beauty in math without having to understand it really. Which is valuable since most people get turned off on math because tiresome drills and tests hammered into them at school by people with zero interest in it.

I've been keeping my eye on mojo. Honestly though the thing I least like about Python is it's syntax.

Someone else here is bringing up Julia. Which I think is a fine language but the compiler error messages and the library documentation are not what I would want in a language as far along as it is. I'm also worried about the correctness issues I've read about in a blog awhile back. Also I don't feel like I can make the kind of Python module I want with it (because of binary size and time to first x)

That being said I'm only hoping that Mojo can become an option. But I really like to use a REPL and I like the dynamicness of Python. So I might not ever get around to doing anything outside of maybe Numpy for performance.

No, sorry, I wasn't referring to any library. I just meant a UI I made out of HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

I remember looking into GUI libraries for Python a while back and this one and qt came up.

However I ended up settling on making a Web UI served via FastAPI. I'm still happy about that decision but this one sounded really nice back then.

Imagine getting a car without a replaceable battery.