wrongcarwhy

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   by wrongcarwhy 3y ago

   Partykit confused me. They hired two people, then laid them off ( https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/1724159621382754738 ) after raising 2.5 million, with nothing but a vague message about "the tech lands
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   by wrongcarwhy 3y ago

   It definitely existed by the time rome_console/biome_console was created! The crate was created 2 years ago[1] and miette was released more than 2 years ago[2]. By the time rome_console was created miette was on v4, so presumably somew
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   by wrongcarwhy 3y ago

   But miette already produces quite good error messages! On par with Rust's IMO: https://github.com/zkat/miette
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   by wrongcarwhy 3y ago

   Yeah...but why? Like zero-dependencies is one of those things that gets you praise on HN, but it means you spend a lot of time building...terminal console abstractions and not actually shipping stuff to users.
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   by wrongcarwhy 3y ago

   For TypeScript specifically there is some justification in that the TypeScript compiler is rather slow, so any speed benefits of Biome would go away if it relied on TypeScript for type information. But as a whole, not-invented-here syndrome
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   by wrongcarwhy 4y ago

   Reading the reasons...I could have told you this when Deno was released. Oh wait, pinned package versions are too specific??? Maybe you want some sort of tool where you can give it constraints on package versions and it'll find the min