vendiddy

For me, I start reading and realize I have no idea what they're talking about.

I'm on your side regarding this sentiment.

I happen to work on a product that is built for accountants. You would not believe how slow these apps are and all they do is display forms!

I believe customers do care about performance even in these B2B industries.

But it feels like they sink into some form of learned helplessness. We were interviewing our customers to learn how to build a better PDF viewer for them. Their biggest complaint had about Adobe Acrobat? Too slow!

I agree with you. I don't think LLMs magically solve the problem that comes with writing twice.

Even if they were to write for two platforms, they'd likely want to have a whole bunch of business & state management logic that would be shared between the two with the native part being a thin platform layer.

It seems like a mostly shared codebase (reglardless of specific tech choice) would let them get precisely the end user UX they care about. Both for performance and capability.

Not saying they should use React Native but maintaining two large apps and using LLMs to keep them in sync seems far worse than many other options.

Maybe you're overthinking this?

Tailwind saved me time and the pain of writing CSS so I paid for it.

We're talking about MSFT here. I think they can afford whatever Cursor can. They're just not taking reliability seriously.

Dang... I use zig at work to write single binary apps and I know what a floppy is. I feel personally attacked.

This seems like a good idea to me. I wonder what the hold up is.

I don't think this is true.

The history of Elixir has its roots in Jose learning Erlang, loving the properties BEAM, but wanting a different language.

All of the principles of the BEAM still exist in Elixir. And a lot of the Elixir semantics come from Erlang, precisely because Jose studied Erlang and the BEAM.

I've come to expect that, every time I update and OS or app to a newer version, it's going to be slower and more bloated.

Why can't it be the opposite? Why can't I expect an update to run faster than the previous version?

I feel like they are a workaround to GUIs being slow and bloated Electron apps.

But I wish we'd just make fast GUIs instead of giving up and building TUIs instead.

My biggest complaint about ChatGPT is how slow their interface is when the conversations get log. This is surprising to me given that it's just rendering chats.

It's not enough to turn me off using it, but I do wish they prioritized improving their interface.

Giving the AI an actual programming language (functions + objects) genuinely does seem like a good alternative to the MCP mess we have right now.