alabhyajindal

The WebAssembly community should really focus more the developer experience of using it. I recently completed a project where I wrote a compiler¹ targeting it and found the experience to be rather frustrating.

Given that Wasm is designed with formal semantics in mind, why is the DX of using it as a target so bad? I used binaryen.js to emit Wasm in my compiler and didn't get a feeling that I am targeting a well designed instruction set. Maybe this is a criticism of Binaryen and its poor documentation because I liked writing short snippets of Wasm text very much.

1. https://git.sr.ht/~alabhyajindal/jasmine

When was the last time you tried Wayland? I switched to KDE Plasma a couple years ago not knowing anything about display server protocols and haven't had a single issue.

I love using KDE Plasma. All the best to the team!

> I try to write everything in JavaScript when I can and have it run in the browser.

Question for the author if they are here: why not use one of the many languages that compile to Wasm to write compilers for esoteric languages?

Thank you - I appreciate it!

This is not a direct comment on compiler development but on industrial projects in general: how do you begin contributing to something that is so large?

What should a beginner in compiler development, someone who has written a few compilers of their own, do to get involved in a project such as OCaml? I understand this issue is not specific to compilers, but is faced by any sufficiently large project. Still, I think it's an important issue. I believe there are many resources for people to get up and running in a field but not enough for them to make the next jump into industrial projects.

Thanks for your reply! I wasn't trying to be dismissive in my original comment. Just making an observation as someone new to Jujutsu.

I don't know anything about Jujutsu but the Git equivalents for some of these commands are more readable:

  jj bookmark move main --to @-
  git add . 

  jj git init --colocate
  git init

Also using `jj git` everytime feels repetitive.

What's wrong with using the bookmarks features provided by the browser? The one in Firefox works very well for me, plus it's synced across devices.

Tried the challenge mode - would like to see support for Ctrl + [, acting as escape!

Doesn't GitLab suffer from the same problem of pushing AI? They have many AI features, and position themselves as "The most-comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform".

I love MDN. Congratulations and thank you to all the contributors!

You should try fish shell. Great user experience out of the box, including history suggestions.

https://fishshell.com

This is beautiful and hilarious. Thanks!

Preach. We need more Python slander. It annoys me to no end when people trash JavaScript as if it was some exception in bad language design. Most languages have something bad that can be picked up and trashed on - some more than others.

16e is not a small phone, it's about the same size as an iPhone 16.

https://phonesized.com/compare/#2552,2644,1975,1863

Is getting a kit like this the recommended way to learn electronics? I don't know anything about it! I would like to get to the point where I can light up a LED bulb programmatically and understand how it's happening.

Why does the cost need to be so high? Chinese markets have many small phone options like Soyes and Servo that cost less than $100. Unfortunately, these devices are potentially loaded with malware.

Can a similar device without malware not be made in small batches? At a selling price of $500 or less?

I learned Python from your Udemy course of the same name. Congrats on the new edition of the book!

You can choose to implement it differently based on your implementation language. Data Classes and If statements work really well for this in Python, for example.

Statement Data Classes: https://github.com/alabhyajindal/plox/blob/main/stmt.py

If statements in the parser matching against them: https://github.com/alabhyajindal/plox/blob/main/parser.py#L3...

I hate talk titles of this form: "Most of your projects are stupid. Please make some actual games.". So annoying. I know it's not personal but I'm sure a better title exists for all talks that choose this form. Why do you have to insult the audience?

From the suggestion email¹:

> "Click here" assumes everyone has a computer and mouse. And it's not even needed: most users of the Web understand how to follow links.

1. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2001Sep/0007.htm...

This matches my experience as well. I have been journalling on and off for 4-5 years. It's a way for me to process my thoughts. But I never look back it, I don't feel the need to. The writing is the important bit, not the resulting output.

Very cool! I didn't know pilots are required to maintain a logbook. What's the official recommendation for this - using a paper logbook?

Yes but the issue is those code snippets are generated artificially and are not coherent. Same issue as artificially generated prose.

https://typing.io ? I like it but feels outdated, and has many little QOL issues.

I love this! Reminded me of TypeLit.io [1]. I would love something similar for programming: typing out snippets of code, that make sense, to improve typing speed involving special characters and symbols. Maybe selecting code snippets from popular open-source projects and presenting them to the user is a good start!

1. https://www.typelit.io/

Why do you consider playing guitar as something tactile but not programming? Genuine question really. Isn't playing guitar also not producing anything tangible?

I had never heard of Pinia. Visited their landing page [1] and there's a button selling a course on how to use the library. There's a CTA for the course when you go to the Guide page as well. Very strange!

1. https://pinia.vuejs.org

So many comments about static vs dynamic typing whereas the article barely discusses that. I loved reading this - very well written!