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Exciting? Possibly for those involved. I hate to say this, as I'm generally optimistic towards most developments like this, but over the last decade I've become so apathetic towards anything and everything from Google. They've lost so much mindshare and credibility. Their org structure leads to stagnation left, right and centre. I'd rather tolerate the poor status quo in React land than take any sort of bet on Google…
Angular is getting partial hydration (seems automatic from the keynote but it's not clear) and deferred views which are like components that don't load until something happens (eg entering the viewport).
Performance has increased considerably too thanks to the use of signals.
Honestly I'm quite impressed. I wish Svelte had partial hydration but the team keeps arguing against it.
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Maybe one of these: https://libredirect.github.io/ https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ Note the site I linked is very dodgy, so probably not trustworthy.
i checked them, but libredirect removed the twitter option from the config menu (i guess because of the changes in the twitter api) and the other just a generic url to url redirect. but thanks anyway
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The way concurrency works is pretty unique amongst mainstream languages. Java has just copied some parts of how concurrency works in Go, but that's nearly 20 years after Go was released. It's extremely easy to start up code concurrently with "go foo()". You can start up lots of such functions concurrently, as it works in userspace. Like async code, but no "colored functions" problem.
Colored functions is only a problem in JS
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The way concurrency works is pretty unique amongst mainstream languages. Java has just copied some parts of how concurrency works in Go, but that's nearly 20 years after Go was released. It's extremely easy to start up code concurrently with "go foo()". You can start up lots of such functions concurrently, as it works in userspace. Like async code, but no "colored functions" problem.
Colored functions is only a problem in JS
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The goal of a public company is to increase shareholder value. Hard to argue that Sundar hasn’t done that. Revenue has increased 5 years straight. Market cap with the exception of a dip during Covid is strong and is approaching its all time high. As a Goolgle user and long time admirer, there have certainly been some disappointments and mistakes over the years. But there’s also been some major accomplishments which p…
What choice can you point to that has increased Google's market cap? Google's search quality is deteriorating, Waymo is yet to make a profit, GCP is struggling, "Attention is all you need" was too early on to credit Sundar, and since then Google's reputation is flagging due to embarrassing AI models... I think Google's market cap is increase _despite_ Sundar, not because. That said, Google does have enough resources…
> I just don't think Sundar is the right person to do it
That was sort of my point. Does Google need to be turned around? All stock metrics and revenue metrics show that they are doing well as a company.
Sure the AI model stuff was embarrassing. But it doesn’t seem to be having an impact on the value of the company. Maybe goodwill was hurt. But if we’ve learned anything from the Meta drama over the years, people will be quick to forget about it. I don’t think a few fixable and public missteps like that will sink the company. Does anyone outside of tech even know about it? It’s possible it’s indicative of a larger internal issue thats brewing. But it’s not impacting the value of the company… yet at least.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/478176/google-public-clo...
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I hear "revolutionary" claimed about languages like Rust, Haskell and Zig, but rarely about Go. What about Golang is revolutionary to you?
The way concurrency works is pretty unique amongst mainstream languages. Java has just copied some parts of how concurrency works in Go, but that's nearly 20 years after Go was released. It's extremely easy to start up code concurrently with "go foo()". You can start up lots of such functions concurrently, as it works in userspace. Like async code, but no "colored functions" problem.
Exciting? Possibly for those involved. I hate to say this, as I'm generally optimistic towards most developments like this, but over the last decade I've become so apathetic towards anything and everything from Google. They've lost so much mindshare and credibility. Their org structure leads to stagnation left, right and centre. I'd rather tolerate the poor status quo in React land than take any sort of bet on Google…
Golang is one of the Google products that I consider revolutionary in programming. But then again, it may just be because they employed the rockstars (Rob Pike, Ken Thomson, and Robert Griesemer) to work on it. I suppose it's less about the company, and more about who the company chooses to work on the project.
It is basically a revamp from those rockstars previous efforts (Limbo and Oberon based dialects).
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Golang is one of the Google products that I consider revolutionary in programming. But then again, it may just be because they employed the rockstars (Rob Pike, Ken Thomson, and Robert Griesemer) to work on it. I suppose it's less about the company, and more about who the company chooses to work on the project.
I hear "revolutionary" claimed about languages like Rust, Haskell and Zig, but rarely about Go. What about Golang is revolutionary to you?