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I did see the article about that too. Don't know about "always" since there are applications like web backends where you're never going to add arrays of floats or something. Even i…

I've noticed a lot of articles about SIMD on the HN front page. That's cool, but just wondering, is there some reason this is more in focus lately?

Need to normalize by APC instead (Altimas per capita)

What's better for this, Go? That's the least verbose static one, and it's still a lot more verbose without helping you understand any better what it's doing. It's just faster. That…

The logic is still there, it's not meant as obfuscation. Also plenty of sites don't minify cause that involves a whole toolchain.

You don't need that, gets in the way more than it helps. Even Typescript isn't really needed, but at least it's decent devex unlike the Python typing stuff. What really helps is te…

That and JS code is more readily available in the source of tons of webpages, not hidden away in some backend

JS is the best tradeoff between succinct and easy to understand. Python is next but has some rough edges that they avoided in JS.

Any good LLM service (not just coding-focused ones) will write and run ad hoc code without being asked if your prompt involves lots of data. Gemini and Claude tend to pick Python w…

Training data is a factor too

They weren't just trying to be different with Mac, more like it's an outdated part of the system. It made more sense when software was often on CDs or floppies, cause a disk image …

The good old days were when social media wasn't a thing. There was a gap between MySpace and Facebook circa 2007 where neither was popular for my age range, I guess cause only olde…

AOL dialup except it's not connected to the rest of the internet, free with your purchase of a Spiderman™ IPA

The premise is good, but that entire website would be people complaining that they don't own movies on VHS anymore

These sometimes exist, sometimes not, because exes aren't really designed to bundle files inside. I would expect the portable exe to be slower too. Mac apps are designed to be trul…

.apps are already folders, unlike .exes, so .app.zip is already sufficient. You do need .dmg for symlinks I think, but nobody is symlinking inside their app bundles, or shouldn't b…

I'm guessing this is why Mac apps tend to be more self-contained while Windows ones like to be installed. An exe can have resource files archived into it, but it'd probably be inef…

Some annoying apps do need to be in /Applications but often can be fooled with a symlink.

It could solve that if they wanted to make it like iOS apps by default, and only go outside that for less common situations like dev tools. I kinda expected Mac App Store apps to b…

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I get the appeal of this then, I just don't think it's worth. Whatever you do will produce some static proto in the end that can be diffed at l…