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Careful using the term “most” when you mean “the ones I know of”. You would be surprised how much Angular is out there.
Name one that gives 100% parity to React in their SDK to write extensions. Not works in some of the cases and you have to implement fetch calls yourself, or some iframe boilerplate and JS glue, everything they expose in React is fully available in Angular, including field extensions, inline previews, sidebar extensions, the whole lot.
Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
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Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
#122As we see more and more heavily AI built open source projects, I wonder how the perception of them becomes. There's a huge spectrum of AI developed code, the same way there is with human code, except a human at least had to think a bit about what they wrote. If you generate code with an LLM to the standards that you'd write it yourself (which is the only way I'd consider for anything important) and you review every bit that's written, I think that's wonderful. Even if you don't, I don't think that's bad, but I will have more friction to adopt that project as there's likely lower quality code and less personal investment into it.
I find that a lot of online discussion has gone either "AI generate everything" or "never AI generate anything", with the middle ground being mostly silent. That's probably just because it's the internet and most people I talk to IRL have a reasonable middle ground take. I'm all for it if it accelerates a person making thoughtful decisions. If not, more power to you, but I'm less inclined to use the software out of fear of using something of poor quality or something that'll be abandonware.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
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Also the same vibe-code leader as zerolang, "The Programming Language for Agents" which Vercel launched with much fanfare in May, landed 1200 commits and then stopped ~mid-June. https://github.com/vercel-labs/zerolang https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193539
Kind of funny seeing a serious (?), grown up, for-profit company acting the same way as my scatterbrain clinging into this month's fascination. Luckily, most of my things never see the light of day, so they don't get referenced a month later in a HN burn when I publish yet another project I'll stop working on in a month.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
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Name one that gives 100% parity to React in their SDK to write extensions. Not works in some of the cases and you have to implement fetch calls yourself, or some iframe boilerplate and JS glue, everything they expose in React is fully available in Angular, including field extensions, inline previews, sidebar extensions, the whole lot.
I think you are confusing React SDK with Vercel SDK.
React is designed with Next.js needs in mind nowadays.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
#125Related problem: Using AI to write compilers that optimize runtime code. I did this for Zod.
https://github.com/gajus/zod-compiler
Zod schemas, compiled at build time into raw boolean chains. 2-74x faster. No code changes. The plugin swaps Zod with compiled parse.
I wrote almost none of the optimizations. Claude did, in a loop, over 100+ iterations.
It works because the compiled version can be diffed against real Zod. Correctness isn't a judgment call. Same as scriptc.
This applies to every program with a reference implementation and a benchmark. Compilers, serializers, formatters, query planners, etc.
Excited for faster Internet.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
#126Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
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that doesn't mean much. it has a lot of tests, the architect seems sane, it fits a niche (for example scripts baked into container images don't need full (Node + tsx + esbuild) or Bun/Deno)
>> that doesn't mean much. it has a lot of tests tests don't mean much if you are not an expert on the subject
> tests don't mean much if you are not an expert on the subject
I think the bet is that the AI is an expert, given the vast literature and open source around compilers.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
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Maybe if it's a business level tool made in house with claude vs contracted to a software house in India. Never for a compiler, who even is that person?
> Never for a compiler, who even is that person? Why do you care? It's a stranger from the Internet. Same as with any other software you're using. In particular, same as with any OSS tool you're using.
> Why do you care?
> It's a stranger from the Internet. Same as with any other software you're using. In particular, same as with any OSS tool you're using.
Don't you think that even if you don't know someone personally, you can calibrate your trust in their ability based on reputation, track record.
Re: Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
#129Vercel sloping it's way to clout again, they do this every month or so, clearly they want to stay in the news and some how credible and relevant. I can't think of any serious company or project that would use this thing. P.S: I just checked the contributors list, I have the utmost respect to them (notably simonw), but clearly this code is claude'ish but it is not among the contributor which makes it even more suspect…
> I have the utmost respect to them (notably simonw) seems like simon only changed the readme and wasn't really involved in the project. https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/commits/main/?author=...
I deleted two words from the README.