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This is my exact experience. TypeScript seemed to hit a complexity sweet spot about 5 years ago, then they just kept adding more obscure stuff to the type system. I find that understanding TypeScript compiler errors can be almost as difficult as understanding C++ template errors at times.

This is no longer remotely true. Most .NET teams I know now deploy on Linux and develop on Windows/Mac/Linux.

I'm not seeing a major problem here, you just need to install MSVC++ alongside it.

I've always been a big proponent of TypeScript, but does anyone else feel like the type system has gotten a bit too flexible? I recently had to fix some errors when upgrading packages on an old project, and it was not at all clear what was wrong by just reading the compiler output. For some errors, there were like 5-10 lines of confusing info/context, it felt like trying to understand the errors reported in template-heavy C++.

Maybe libuv? It's used by node and julia. It's not a full standard library by any means, but it would give you the event loop with async/networking/io/threading.

No need for a meditation myth at all, absolutely. It's brain hacking as far as I'm concerned.

As for concentration training vs mindfulness meditation, I do think there's a difference. Concentration is a tight single-pointed focus, while mindfulness is a broad focus on the present moment. I found mindfulness meditation basically impossible without practicing concentration meditation extensively first, my mind was too overactive to settle in the present without an anchor to focus on.

It's about training your mind's executive control/function. You learn to focus on one thing and allow others to pass through your awareness without them being overly distracting/disturbing.

Think of your focus like a spotlight. Most people have very little control over their spotlight and it gets aimed at whatever is the latest thing to enter their awareness: a thought, a sound, another thought, a visual, etc. It's bouncing all around, all the time. A proficient meditator can more effectively control where the spotlight points. Over time, as the mind slowly learns to do this better, the stuff outside the spotlight fades and become less intrusive. This leads to increasing states of calm and peacefulness which extend even after the meditation session ends.

Also, WebAssembly can't support most GC runtimes now, because you can't scan the stack for roots. You can keep your own shadow stack on the heap, but that has a bunch of pretty bad performance implications. This actually impacts C/C++/Rust codegen as well, since they can't create references/pointers to anything on the stack, and have to build their own shadow stack (I think this is done in binaryen or LLVM itself?). I understand it's a security thing to disallow direct stack access, but most languages and runtimes expect it.

Anyways, that's why there needs to be support in WebAssembly for GC, because there needs to be a safe way to walk the stack (aside from the obvious JS interop considerations).

I had to turn off uBlock.

FedEx maybe. UPS is unionized, I think they pay a fair wage.