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...performance-wise. Not in general. It obviously does more than just opening a file. Also, you don't get to choose your competitors. SQLite is single-writer focused and an embedde…

I would say it mirrors common behavior in the Web, which in turn was largely influenced by old desktop software: Enter in a ` ` inserts a line break, while enter in an ` ` submits …

Things that definitely need interactive prompts before running or fail out of ambiguity otherwise. Let's not pretend these are impossible problems to overcome design-wise.

I like it and would like to see an entire Linux OS being done in a similar manner. Or shell / wrapper / whatever. A sane homogeneous cli for once, that treats its user as a human i…

Depends on your definition of "using" JavaScript. The main difference between common TypeScript and TS-based JSDoc is the need for an additional build step. Being able to ftp-uploa…

> So (TS)JSDoc support is a relic from when Microsoft was trying to get market share from Google. > Today in 2025, TS offers so much more than the (TS)JSDoc implementation. Generic…

I see where you're coming from, but "on a phone" hasn't been a valid qualifier for performance benchmarks for a long time. Phones and their GPUs are ridiculously powerful nowadays.…

Neither are humans, so this argument doesn't really stand.

This is a nice idea, but looking back at how not only documentation, but also UX in general has not improved the slightest over the last decades, it's fair to say the only way we'l…

What about complex SPAs? Database drivers? Polyfills? TypeScript?

I ran some of these in comparison with Chrome, and Chrome was consistently faster, but only marginally (1-20%). I'm actually quite impressed, an integrated Intel HD 620 / 4x2.4 GHz…

Great game idea. I'd suggest you limit the questions top international topics though. I got a suggestion for "name a hurricane" - this probably wouldn't generate very interesting r…

Pinta *IS* Paint.net, just forked at an earlier stage before the latter became closed source software. Also, is "washed and bleak" really that big of a problem for an image editor?…

In other words, a fork? Or how does the semantics of patch/changes/update differ in any way from maintaining a fork? The packaging has nothing to do with this. It may not be a well…

I agree with this - you need to change a few settings unless you're an absolute purist - but once you have done that, it's basically a nicer, well-maintained professional Firefox f…

It can have severe performance implications in some areas with very bad internet bandwidth. Also it makes instantiating a global cache more difficult. See: https://meyerweb.com/eri…

Linking to my own comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31040629#31043115