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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by lionkor »

yard2010 wrote: post #124
nhinck2 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> now nothing goes past me unreviewed and untested So it's not hand-built?

Honest question - does using claude code and steering it to type the code I want counts as hand-built? Like doing actual PRs, nit picking, basically treating it as a jr/product/typist while I'm the one making ALL the decisions? Reading every line and approving manually if it's a code that I would write?

No it does not count as hand built. In the same way that a human pressing buttons, such that an automated production line makes a watch, and then at the end a human goes and looks at it and says "yup that's a watch" isn't a hand-made watch.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by lthi747 »

Lerc wrote: post #106
nhinck2 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> now nothing goes past me unreviewed and untested So it's not hand-built?

What is? I, at the very least, need a keyboard.

Does using non AI code autocompletions and code templates makes your code non hand written? Because I think it’s based on same idea - “prediction of next word”. And sometimes with just few buttons pressed you get surprisely good lines.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by Kiro »

lionkor wrote: post #131
yard2010 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question - does using claude code and steering it to type the code I want counts as hand-built? Like doing actual PRs, nit picking, basically treating it as a jr/product/typist while I'm the one making ALL the decisions? Reading every line and approving manually if it's a code that I would write?

No it does not count as hand built. In the same way that a human pressing buttons, such that an automated production line makes a watch, and then at the end a human goes and looks at it and says "yup that's a watch" isn't a hand-made watch.

Nice opinion but it's clearly a spectrum and not binary. Is assembling machine-made components by hand to make a watch hand-made?

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by freedomben »

7bit wrote: post #55
djfobbz wrote: post #16

I can't get Bun to work under WSL1, which is super annoying. Does Ant support WSL1?

Why are you Not using WSL2?

Not OP, but WSL1 is still much more performant in some areas, like lower memory use, startup times, quicker windows file access. I haven't used WSL1 in quite some time but I believe it's also still fully supported so use what's better for your use case

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by cognitiveinline »

theMackabu wrote: post #76
ptx wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it essentially implementing a paravirtualized OS that runs the JS runtime? Presumably you have to allocate the memory for the VM up front, or how does that work?

on linux its kvm, on darwin its hypervisor.framework, the memory is not upfront, by default 256mb is lazy allocated, and ~35mb are used by both ant + the vm. the kernel is https://nanos.org with patches to get ant+networking running smoothly

Does it work on windows?

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by cognitiveinline »

theMackabu wrote: post #61
Kwpolska wrote: post #53

The author has supposedly created a company ( https://sf.tools/ ), with a broken /jobs page, and yet is developing the project under their personal GitHub account. Does not look trustworthy.

this page is literally a inside joke, theres a reason /jobs doesn't work (im not hiring)

Ah you're the cluely guy!

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by cognitiveinline »

theMackabu wrote: post #5
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #2

I have actually known* about Ant for some time from your previous submissions and its really interesting and I wish the project luck! Do you think that Ant could be used to create a small index.html/css/js project into an desktop app minimally. I currently found deno desktop which is pretty recent to be the easiest way of doing this for one of my projects ( https://epub.mirror.forum ) but I found there to be some iss…

just got the thing for you actually! literally just finished a stable version last night, https://www.npmjs.com/package/ant-desktop . WIP still, chromium only renderer backend but webview and other backends coming soon as well. no local ant install needed as libant is bundled, when CI finishes ill have windows/linux builds too

How big are these binaries? the big electron complaint is the large binaries. if these are under 10mb, you have a winner.
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