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Based on all the negative comments, and being a non-expert, I had an LLM generate an article for that same title. I suspect it was more approachable and more technically accurate than this. In fact I asked it to compare its article with this one and the negative comments.
The author of any technical blog post should be using an LLM to vet things before posting to find gaps or inconsistencies.
Here are a few
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Linux-Binder-In-Rust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23791v1
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to...
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10664-024-105...
Everybody would be doing it by now
Models and agents have progressed significantly in the last few months. Migrating projects to rust can definitely be a thing in the coming years if there is sufficient motivation. But oftentimes c/c++ devs have aversions to the rust language itself, so the biggest challenge can be an issue of motivation in general.
That was my point — with LLMs the progress would not be at the same slope as with people only.
I believe with a little (okay a lot of) motivation and a solid LLM, these can all be rewritten faster than everyone says. Especially if it’s gradual.
Mozilla and Dropbox did it. LLMs are good at translating between languages, and writing unit tests to make sure things still work the same.
starting with (now Google-dead) "Material Design"
I thought it was still actively developed. Are you saying this has been killed by Google?
and preferably general LSP support so I can code in my own programming languages with it
I’m curious, do you really use your own languages for day to day development?
It doesn’t follow that a language server written with JavaScript and run via node will bloat the binary by hundreds of MB. Are they bundling a node runtime too?
Maybe if they are embedding dozens of language servers and runtimes it could bloat the binary, but I assumed the extensions and language servers would be downloaded on demand.
But a rust binary by itself shouldn’t be that large. LSP is just a simple json protocol, so parsing it doesn’t require hundreds of MB.
It seems inevitable we’ll also be able to run LLMs locally, which would make this type of feature more appealing.
Pdfml is a great name because everytime I work with pdfs, I think fml
This come off so… un-human. Like a machine trying to preserve a human rather than a human trying to maximize real experiences with them.
So it’s competing with vercel?
Never learned awk or committed esoteric cli incantations to memory. Don’t get me wrong, I can get around on the cli, but sed, awk, etc just didn’t seem like a good cost/benefit investment. I’m also not a sysadmin.
Thankfully I waited long enough and LLMs can write them for me better than I ever could.
He mentions some tools at the bottom (ClangBuildAnalyzer, Build Insights in Visual Studio, include-what-you-use).
Looks like https://include-what-you-use.org/ might do that.
It is exactly the attitude you are still exhibiting that was the problem. “We’re in a crisis, no time to ask questions. Fall in line or you’re a far right conspiracy theorist/idiot.”
I don’t think people attacking Asians had that nuanced of a motive. More like: it came from Asia so they resented Asians, regardless of whether it was designed or leaked or whatever.
It was absolutely taboo. If you tried to bring it up you were shouted down as a far right conspiracy theorist, or racist.
Mashup of clips from the news: https://youtu.be/zl-X-Lgrlf0
Jon Stewart was the first to call this into question publicly, which was brave at the time. Watch Colbert push back on Stewart’s line of reasoning: https://youtu.be/sSfejgwbDQ8
Honestly questioning anything covid-related was taboo at that time, including the vaccines, masks, ivermectin, etc. Please note, I am not making any claims about these things, other than it was taboo to question anything “official sources” stated.
Agreed, and to add on to what you said - this whole thing is confusing so he is actually doing a service of trying to summarize all the context for people who don’t want to go reading a bunch of random articles or tweets.
I’m with you, but have you not been around the last few years? American society is absolutely obsessed with white supremacy. This is true in the media, the highest levels of government, and in big tech.
I personally listened to paid guest lecturers tell me all white people are racist, and those who deny it are proving their racism. In my workplace.
People are brainwashed to believe and see this stuff at this point, and there is an industry monetizing it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer…
I did. I don’t get why they wouldn’t be against the theory of something so obviously flawed that leads to exactly what they are describing.
It’s like saying you have nothing against eugenics in theory, but the leap to how that can go wrong in practice is painfully obvious.
Or “I have nothing against giving everyone a million dollars in theory”. Obviously that is a dumb idea, so why even say you have nothing against it “in theory”.
who would have suspected this was racially motivated?
For the last several years, there are many people and groups who have gotten tremendous positive feedback from being a victim. So, many people would jump to this conclusion for outrage, sympathy, and signaling their virtue.
Thankfully, it seems it may be coming to an end now since it’s disruptive and at odds with reality.
Nothing against that sort of mindset in theory, but it sometimes leads to a certain irrational hypersensitive intolerant mob behavior and authoritarian/anti democratic tendencies.
Really? Nothing against a thing that leads to hypersensitive intolerant mob behavior and authoritarian/anti democratic tendencies!?
the calculations within a neural network involve both linear and non-linear operations, but the fundamental mathematical framework underlying AI remains rooted in linear algebra
Proxy objects are absolutely common in js state management frameworks.
And yes it’s nice to build something on your own, but this project is clearly aiming to convince other people to use it in their projects.
Why would you be so snarky in your answer? Always better to be humble and assume you might be wrong. In this case you are: Nobody chains promises anymore.
I’m a bit confused why they made it in the first place given the dozens of similar ultra minimal spartan frameworks to choose from that nobody uses (every other comment here is plugging one).
Pretty sure I’m both uncool and bad at making friends
Starting a response with “you realize” is so condescending. I wish people would just make their point neutrally.
At one time, people programmed without google or search engines. They literally used thick ass books, and had to read through them and then type out what they saw in the book. Today, that sounds absurd.
Then came stack overflow and google. We search, pray we get a good result or someone else took the time to ask the question, then read (and sometimes copy+paste).
Then AI assistants. I'm not exactly sure what's next, but I do think coding without some type of AI assistant will be extremely antiquated very soon. I already use it all the time. I never want to go back.
The next generation will look at finding answers via SO, google, and random forums just as we look at people use used books -- as an absurdly inefficient way to do a job
Getting relationship advice from the hacker news crowd is like getting vegetarian recipes from a butcher
Ironically, this sounded like an answer from chat gpt.
But more to the point, a fully self hosted solution (llama), even running on a cellphone, is entirely believable. Look at some of the recent developments with llama.cpp and Stanford over the last week.