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by _benton 2y ago
I'm forcing myself to use raw CSS in my recent work just so I can gain a better understanding of it. It's nice what you can achieve without JS, but man sometimes it just feels like arranging arcane symbols until you achieve the de
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by _benton 2y ago
Seeing all the comments about Rust in that other discussion was kind of disappointing. I have a feeling if they chose Rust, go fans wouldn't be complaining about it not being written in Go.
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by _benton 2y ago
> ctrl-f "rust" > 93 matches sigh
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by _benton 2y ago
Are you comparing perfectly written JS to poorly written C++?
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by _benton 2y ago
Golang is actually pretty easy to embed into JS/TS via wasm. See esbuild.
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by _benton 2y ago
One reason I think Tailwind became so popular is that it makes it much easier to pattern match CSS. I don't think it's a good or bad thing, it's just a thing.
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by _benton 2y ago
Yeah, and if Rich started making decisions on behalf of Vercel I would move to something else. However I trust that he wouldn't compromise his integrity in that way.
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by _benton 2y ago
Yeah it works fine with the latest sveltekit. You do need to set { esbuild: target: "es2022" } in the vite config to enable JS decorators but that isn't specific to svelte. These aren't TS decorators, they're ecmasc
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by _benton 2y ago
I agree with everything in the post but I still like using Svelte. We've adopted our own Store class and decorators which eliminates some of the issues in the post. class Wrapper extends Store { @state() accessor dom: HTM
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by _benton 2y ago
We switched to Sveltekit and are much happier. The output is also much faster and leaner.
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by _benton 2y ago
Next.js is basically designed to run on servers that process one event at a time and in which there are many parallel deployments (ie. 'serverless'). Still, it's shocking just how bad its performance actually is - virtually u