Why are there an endless flood of comments like this on HN and other social media insisting that because there’s such high demand, it’s IMPOSSIBLE that these tech companies are overvalued and over leveraging debt.
Reality is way more nuanced. Something can have high demand AND be on the precipice of financial catastrophe. See: Spirit Airlines.
Because none of those UI libraries use native controls. I want mac apps to look and feel like mac apps. I want native controls, native shortcuts, toolbars, built in integration with screen readers, and all the other things that the OS already provides.
Dioxus uses webviews for everything. Slint has invented their own set of UI components, so slint apps don't look and feel like anything else. As I understand it, gpui is somewhere in the middle.
If you run an app using my framework, I want it to feel like a completely native app that was made for that platform. It should look like any other swiftui, cocoa / uikit, winui, etc application. Native shortcuts. Native controls. Native look and feel. Small binary size. No electron. No webviews.
It's just not that hard to link to the system's UI libraries.
> It's just not that hard to link to the system's UI libraries.
Are you concerned that as SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose continue to become the preferred native UI frameworks on Apple and Android respectively, you're going to need to figure out a way to bridge to them from Rust?
I think I might need to bridge to them from rust. But that doesn’t sound impossible. Just … tricky. Especially to bridge to them in a performant way. I’m not sure if SwiftUI has a lower level api.
I'll be honest given the article title I was hoping for a detailed rant on the complex installation process that most Windows apps hide, but this was also a nice read. And as a user of Raycast they do indeed have a very nice installation background.
Go ahead and go live next to one then and show us how it's nothing but propaganda.
Quite convenient how the same people trying to run roughshod over the others to get these bubble mania mausoleums built NEVER live near them but are HAPPY to make others who can't afford a second home live next to them.
I don’t have some grand theory on SO’s downfall. All I will say is that sometimes us programmers try to optimize every single thing in life and that’s simply not how humans work.
SO tried to optimize the Q/A by eagerly rejecting repeat questions, without considering what the consequences of that were. If you’re in a classroom / lecture hall, your teacher / professor isn’t going to chide you for asking an “obvious” or “repeat” question (bad ones might). Imagine if every time you wanted to talk to a TA or professor you first needed to lookup previously asked questions in a database and then, iff your question hasn’t been asked before, you may ask the professor or TA after hours. Programmers might call this system “efficient” but most people would be pretty unhappy with it.
CP 2077 belongs to a 80s franchise, it was futuristic back then. Since the 2000s, cyberpunk the 80's genre is an accurate representation of the present and past. The future looks bleaker now, with fewer romanticized decorations like flying cars and social dynamics being worse than what the cyberpunk grandfathers imagined. For example "low life" being way more controlled which is exactly what both masses and elites wanted.
In retrospect it's obvious that the cyberpunk authors were mistakenly projecting certain parts of their present into the future (relative freedom of the masses and increasing rate of "traditional" engineering), and didn't consider second order effects and political action/reaction.
Been using it for half a year now in prod to collect sensor data from IoT devices.
My only complaints are:
1) Memory usage is a bit high. We went with the AWS instance they recommended in the docs and even that went over our provisioned memory. It's not much but I think it could be improved
2) You need to buy their enterprise plan if what you're storing is remotely sensitive like health data, PII, etc. Any row level security or credential features are locked behind that license. Our use case isn't that sensitive so we can get away with putting it in a VPN and password protecting it, but if you need DB-level security the FOSS license is severely behind Postgres in terms of features.
Other than that, it's never gone down, it's very, very fast and comes with it's own webui for querying your data. We migrated from AWS Timestream and couldn't be happier with the switch.
