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Ummm... it’s for Firefox... no?
I mean, maybe, in theory, someday. But the browser would still be "Firefox", that is, very few people would even be aware of this name, regardless of what the name is.
This seems really cool! I know it's been mentioned before that there are no plans to rewrite SpiderMonkey in Rust, but this sort of feels like a tiny first step in that direction? Almost reminds me of early on in Servo's history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268521 (Although I may just be projecting what I want to hear :) it's exciting hearing about new Rust projects, especially new stuff going into Firefox.…
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I know that that is typical, but there are exceptions, and if you work for the right agency you can be paid well, so I don't want to make any assumptions. If he's not paid well then I hope he realizes that by merely being aware of HN and GitHub puts him in the top 10% of developers and he can do a lot better than working at a place that restricts his ability to educate himself.
Oh, I'm a contractor and I'm paid decently, but the working conditions are terrible. I've been trying to find a job outside of defense/govt work for a long time, but either the pay isn't as good (the one or two times I managed to land an offer) or I'm not a "cultural fit." Not having a network outside of the govt bubble makes it hard.
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I believe the fundamental difference is that instead of hand-writing snippets of assembly which their JIT can append, they are having the Rust compiler generate the assembly snippets from Rust code. This lets them be much more confident that they wrote the snippets correctly, and lets them spend much less time writing the snippets so they can focus on optimizations.
... and the snippets are used for the interpreter, which gives you more confidence that interpreted and JITed code behave the same (if I understood it correctly).
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Last I heard Terry Davis got kicked out of his parent's house and is now living out of his car. Something about an upcoming court case he's involved in as well. He has a small following on Reddit and users post updates of his whereabouts from time to time. He still sporadically streams live video to the TempleOS site. Last broadcast was from an internet cafe.
Really tragic case, Terry. Doubtful that TempleOS would exist without his schizophrenia, but everyone would be much better off emotionally if he just took his medication...
You say that as if the schizophrenic person, someone who lives in an alternate reality due to psychosis, has any kind of agency over taking his medication. You can only make that choice when you're sane, and even then the drugs aren't perfect and people routinely decide to come off them for some psychotic reason - yes, you can become psychotic while on anti-psychotics - and failing that they come off them because they're so ashamed of being mentally ill from all those condescending and "well-meaning" (read: superior) people telling them what to do and how defective they are all the time that they want to prove they can handle it. Plus there's the issue that the alternate reality is way more interesting than this one.
Your suggestion that it's somehow Terry's fault is about as helpful as telling a homeless person - who is much more likely to have a psychotic illness by the way - to "just get a job".
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What about just avoiding needless offence to people who happen to regard the 'holy' morpheme as indicative of ... well ... something holy and not to be trifled with. I don't have religion, but given an essentially infinite number of alternatives to this not-very-funny one, why do this? People also have a right to be idiots in other ways, such as poking hornets' nests because it's funny.
Exactly, the name is not funny at all. Is the author still 15 years old?
Maybe that's why as a start-up, though I have very much done the 'disruptive' thing in the past when needed, I didn't do it to be 'disruptive' for the sake of it, and I always try to find a gentle path to what I want to achieve...
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That's all well and good, but github is blocked where I work.
That's all well and good, but you need to raise that with your IT department if it is an inconvenience rather than complaining to us. It seems odd that github would be blocked especially given HN isn't unless your company has some sort of pathological fear of accidental IP dilution, so perhaps it is a mistake that will be quickly corrected once pointed out?
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> everything non-work related is blocked. It's stupid Why is it stupid?
I once had to fight with IT to unblock MSDN, and we were a Microsoft dev shop. Glad I do not work their anymore.
For those wondering, it's a specializer, applied to an interpreter, to specialize the interpreter into a jit. This is a pretty well explored technique, it's rarely done these days because historically, people could not get good enough performance. (I am not trying to knock them, just put it in context) For more context on how you'd do something like this, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Fu…
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Yes, once you convince everyone to drop the thing we have that works and implement the thing we don't have that doesn't work. In short: you complain as though it were an easy change to make.
He/she is right though, just wait when WebAssembly gets more mature. I bet all those plugins will be back.
If you aren't making games or crunching big numbers, wasm isn't for you yet.
Even so, let's assume wasm added all those features today. History shows it would still be a decade before you could ship to all your users. That may not matter for fancy startup X, but it certainly matters for the biggest and most important businesses.
I love the potential of wasm, but I think it's way too soon to be preaching about it being the end-all be-all of the web.