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This post is about a TypeScript repo, which is what I commented on. It may as well be a necessity since Pi is using a JS runtime as well. It has nothing to do with JetBrains and everything to do with the codebase in the link.

It also has nothing to do with TUI vs. GUI, since my comment addressed both (anecdotally).

If anything, your mentioning of their performance work is exactly my point.

I do code -- the app logic. I also am well aware of what the infrastructure code does, I just don't type any of it myself.

Even if I wanted not to code it I couldn't. LLMs are still incapable of creating code up to any decent standard.

Also, while I do the get the joy of programming, we sometimes forget to focus on the user. You being happy to have typed the whole thing once, and have it run everywhere via the magic of browsers may not be the best strategy if this means your user's lap will be overheating.

In the end as much as I like coding I would prefer my users' experience to be the best it can be. LLM assisted code delivers this better and faster than hand-typing it all (which in turn is better than completely vibecoding it)

Thank you for Squirrel as well!

I appreciate the aside. Interesting observation

Does anyone know if the original promise of their simple layout model proved itself?

IIRC, the Flutter team mentioned how using just width/height constraints is enough to represent all relevant layouts. This sounds very nice, being so much simpler than Flexbox and miles ahead of CSS Grid ergonomics.

Did it live up to the promise or did they expand the model with Flex/Grid/etc?

Do expand

What's the state of FOSS licensing compliance? Have they repented?

Do these providers have 80+% gross margins or is something eating into them? Maybe utilization?

This is a bit of an "XY Problem" question.

I have migrated all my code to Gleam, FE and BE, Bun, browser, and BEAM.

Claude knows much less about Gleam than it does about Javascript or React. However the constraints of Gleam and its Elm inspired framework Lustre are so strong, Claude gives me much better results.

The only difference is I need to adjust my initial guidance.