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Post by johnfn » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

billllll wrote: post #147

johnfn wrote: post #130

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> some of the most highly paid workers on the planet won't pay for tools Aren't we in the middle of literally the entire industry adopting 200/mo AI subscriptions? It seems to me like engineers will absolutely pay for tools if they justify their value.

It's less a binary pay/no pay, and more the value of accessing the dev tools. If you consider the fact that AI companies are most likely losing money running the models, then AI tools are incredibly cheap - they're in some ways paying you to use it. No model maker is going to try to generate a profit off users using their models, they're gonna try to generate it some other way - much like dev tools.

Post by ninalanyon » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #222

ninalanyon wrote: post #210

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Employees don't pay for tools and usually have no say in which tools are bought. Car mechanics don't pay for spanners, their employers do.

The mechanics I’ve know all had to buy their own tools. That may be different if you’re at a specialist shop, like a place that only fixes specific parts expensive makes of cars. The guy at the local auto shop fixing whatever drives in that day almost certainly had to buy all of his.

Post by winrid » Thu, Jan 29, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

matt_kn wrote: post #189

winrid wrote: post #46

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Flutter re-generates the entire layout every tick and diffs it (immediate-mode), like a game engine. If your device isn't quite fast enough it'll lag, yep. RN is retained mode (but written in immediate-mode style and the diffing only happens when it has to).

That is absolutely not true. Elements with dirty layouts are tracked and layout is only recomputed up to the neearest layout boundary.