lucianp

Despite the apparent lack of popularity, Groovy with the Grails framework is certainly better suited for web development than many (I would dare to say, most) of the programming languages listed above. Of course, it also matters what kind of web development we are talking about. Is it web services or web applications? I think the requirements are quite different between the two.

> Take the Google homepage. It’s a one liner text field and two buttons. It weighs in at a whopping 1170 kilobytes! That’s more than a megabyte for what technically should not take more than a few hundred bytes.

The Google homepage does a lot more than that. Since it is one of the most important pages for Google, I think that the engineers over there know what they are doing. I don't think it is a good example of bloat.

I second this! Tree Style Tab is one of the few addons that I cannot live without. Heck, it is one of the reasons why Firefox is my primary browser. This feature should be made native and the original developer should be rewarded somehow for his efforts.

True, but this could be a feature of the mobile app.

Nevertheless, I guess many of us (at least here on HN) leave their computers on all night, so this is not a problem.

Superb! I like it a lot!

A timer for going to sleep would be awesome. Towards the end, the volumne should decrease slowly.

I think an alarm function for waking up would be a nice feature as well. You could set the sounds that you like and when the time comes it would slowly increase the volume over a perioad of 10-15 minutes. This way you could wake up slowly and naturally (forest + rain + thunder would work well as an alarm, for me at least).

The website seems to be back, but the pushes via SSH are timing out for me.

Interesting! I wonder what drove their decision to use rational number representation. Is it possible to turn this feature off and use floating point instead (for performance reasons, let's say)?

You are right. From reading the comments on the issue [2], this seems to be the reason why it takes so long. Although I have now idea of how fonts are made, I think the work needs to be done for all currently available weights (7 different weights).