throwawaylala1

looks like they're crypto guys

so there's that

Any time something is adopted as broadly as JavaScript it's going to be a mess. Even outside the world of computing. Take... city planning. Cities are a mess. In fact human civilization is one big freakin' mess.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could start over and apply all the lessons we've learned over the generations? The world would be a much better place!

Or would it?

We'd end up with yet another mess. It'll be a different mess but it'll be a mess nonetheless. Or worse - we'll end up with two big messes instead of one big mess!

> Also, since you’re probably deploying containers to production, it’s useful to have a similar environment for local development so that you know what will actually happen in production.

This such a complete and utter lie and I'm surprised people in 2022 still believe it.

You do know what's happening when you run Docker on your Macbook, right? Right?

I mean it's a pretty simple concept.

Your frontend team needs an API call that retrieves only friend requests with user names/avatars because the current API call is too heavy.

Normally they'd go to the back-end team and ask them to add an endpoint or modify an existing endpoint to give them the exact data they need. The problem with that is global API surface area becomes more complicated. Complexity is bad because more mistakes are made.

With this model your front-end team can implement the endpoint themselves in the BFF and model the response data exactly as they need it.

They also don't need to deal with that one zealot on the back-end team that gives everyone a hard time about tiny irrelevant issues.

> You can turn off recommendations

Not really. When you turn off recommendations, the app icons are hidden but the space for recommendations stays there! Yes, just a big ol' block of whitespace with a prompt to turn recommendations back on. It takes up like 30%+ of the start menu.

It's a dark pattern.

Wow Snowflake absolutely crushes these benchmarks. Anyone know why? I don't know much about this space.

Wouldn't you lose more just by sitting on cash? Even now?

Right, I was just pointing out the flaw in the parent commenter's statement. You can't do "code version is tied to your database version" - that's just not a thing.

You can't restart all of your web services atomically. What happens if two web services are running two different versions for a couple seconds?

> More practically

> event sourced architecture

You must be joking. Please tell me you're joking.

I use VIM and didn't even know ACME editor existed.

Keep building strawmen, I'll be building software.

Which didn't answer my question at all. Adding more structure to the AST with @param/@return/whatever doesn't make for better documentation. It's useless crap in a real world scenario.

I have. My editor also gives me documentation for every function that I need. Plain text is more than enough for that use.

What kind of function documentation are you reading inline lol? Does it have like 30 function arguments?