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- VitePress - vitepress.dev/
- Angular + Wiz - blog.angular.io/angular-and-w...
- TC39 meeting - dev.to/hemanth/updates-from-t...
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[@kilobitz8639]

ffs. copy fireship much?

[@awesome-coding]

How is this a copy sir?! The voice is obviously different!

[@TechBuddy_]

@@awesome-coding lol 😂

[@voidmind]

Can't a guy have a sense of humor without being called a copy?

[@diggajupadhyay]

It's a trend these days. People are hardly creative enough, some are but then there's thousands more like them.

[@kilobitz8639]

@@awesome-coding lol you know what i'm talking about.

[@hamm8934]

Went Go Gang around the end of 2020 and haven't looked back

[@mostafaei2002]

I like this of short new content for the tech scene. Do it more.

[@awesome-coding]

Will do! Thanks!

[@ashleyfreebush]

This round of news was very useful! Thank you for your work!!

[@popcorntopop4792]

I got a Go dev friend that preaches that its the best language imma try it too

[@TechBuddy_]

I can't say it is the best but it is up there definitely try it

[@hamm8934]

Its like that old cliche about political systems, "democracy isn't the best, but its the best we've got so far." Go is very similar. There is so much that Go has gotten right, with very few pit falls. For new code bases made today, it's really hard to justify not using Go in a major way. It makes going back to java, C#, node, python, and even Rust in ways, feel like a net loss. And go is only getting better with the Go team's commitment to and recent focus on the standard library. I really cant think of many web server use cases where Go isn't the best choice for a new product. Maybe Elixir for some use case? But I dont have enough experience with Elixir yet to say.

[@cariyaputta]

You can ask him "best language for what?"

[@awesome-coding]

@cariyaputta facts! :))

[@vectoralphaAI]

Go and Rust have been gaining traction together. They are both basically modern day improved C.

[@LeviElekes]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[@awesome-coding]

Welcome!

[@kinsondigital]

I am a maintainer of many open-source projects myself. I will tell you that it is really a thankless job and it is very hard work with practically nothing in return. I do not know what the answer is to the sustainability problem in open source. I agree that it is a difficult problem to solve but it does need to be solved.

[@lcarv20]

Dev news are good news. Thanks for the video, keep the good work!

[@awesome-coding]

Thank you!

[@Mr.BinarySniper]

Please continue this series.. we need a tech news monthly or weekly seriously.

[@awesome-coding]

Will do! Thanks for the feedback!

[@krateskim4169]

Thank you for keeping us up to date in this vast environment

[@codeaperture]

You're doing great and we need more of this content. Dont let those calling it a copy be what it is. This content is super great! Original content,

[@awesome-coding]

Thank you!

[@anandhukraju9382]

Is Bun docker image smaller?

[@zuperxtreme]

We tried to migrate to Bun at work, but k8 pod usage went crazy and would not release memory causing the service to scale. Reverted back to Node and issues went away. Will wait a bit more before trying again :/

[@awesome-coding]

Interesting... in all fairness Node is really mature and optimised quite a lot of stuff. Remember that Bun is faster than Node in some specific areas. There are people arguing that those stats are cherry picked to make Bun look better than it actually is.

[@segsfault]

Actually the xz attack only affected the latest unstable versions of linux distros, which most people don't use and it only exists for testing purposes. had it not been noticed and pushed onto stable versions, this attack would've been MASSIVE! also a Microsoft employee found this attack by accident because his ssh login took 500ms longer than usual, LOL.

[@wlockuz4467]

Luckily the guy was benchmarking something completely unrelated, but he noticed CPU spikes and memory errors when working with ssh that made him suspicious. I don't know where the 500ms difference thing comes from, but there is no way someone could tell that difference so it's likely misinformation.

[@segsfault]

@@wlockuz4467 The guy wasn't benchmarking, he was just testing ssh (a software that uses xz), and he noticed that ssh took a little longer to login than before... because 500ms is half a second and it's noticeable because before the logins were almost instantaneous. so he benchmarked the software and noticed that a library called "xz" was taking alot of time than it is supposed to.

[@TechBuddy_]

niceeeee

[@paw565]

Waiting for the end of node and embracment of bun supremacy.

[@tears_falling]

Waiting for the end of JavaScript and embracement of Rust supremacy.

[@paw565]

@@tears_falling valid point sir

[@luka1790]

​​@@tears_fallingnaaa, would be nice if we dont need to rely as much on JS and have things my htmx like a standard

[@hamm8934]

waiting for the end of node

[@thecoolnewsguy]

Waiting for the end of the world

[@Axorax]

Bundows!

[@cslearn3044]

Boi

[@Anshucodes]

go is a great language but im a ts\js fanboy who is struggling to move to rust . i tried golang within 2-3 days i was good enough to make any kind of api , but still the ecosystem is not good , just 2 days before i dropped my plan to take go forward in my dev journey . ( No good lib for websockets) my goal was to learn some low level concept so that i can move faster in rust !!

[@C4CH3S]

Those companies migrating to bun are going to have a real fun time when it's time for Bun to make money and they pull the rug just like redis.

[@bionic_batman]

No big deal. Those companies are probably already used to migrating to some new fancy tool every couple of months or so since they are working in JS ecosystem When Bun stops being free there will be tons of new shiny things to play with.

[@awesome-coding]

I actually believe Bun will go the Deno way, and will try to make money through cloud services.

[@sandrinjoy]

React 19 beta 👀🤷

[@awesome-coding]

I actually have some pretty strong opinions about React 19 - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4S0pX6qos9ng5I It was NOT a well received video 😅

[@porcupinetree-bb3zg]

i don't think it's a good idea to add signals to js. i realize that it's just a pattern but it's moving towards js becoming a framework. look at how web components turned out. if we come up with a different pattern no one will use it and it will be just another way to do things that complicates js even more. plus imagine people using signals on the server. it's better to keep these patterns separated in my opinion.

[@awesome-coding]

You might have a point here :)

[@porcupinetree-bb3zg]

​@@awesome-coding they need to come up with a new language. dart was at one point going to be natively supported in the browser. it had push back but this was before typescript and when coffeescript and vanilla js were still popular. i don't think dart was the answer but if they proposed a new language now there would be a higher approval rate. wasm is probably the way forward for that but i think of it as more of an alternative as opposed to a standard.

[@voidmind]

It was Bernie Sanders who said Yuge, not Trump

[@awesome-coding]

Thanks for clarifying 😅 I need to get my memes straight 😂

[@statelessdev]

Good updates, but I hope the signals proposal dies. I don't think its needed, it doesn't give anything not already given by the DOM api. Also tc39 is a distinct and seperate concern from css & browser standards.

[@TayambaMwanza]

Lol such a dark comment

[@oneofakind_tm]

Hi let me tell you how signals could've helped me, I'm currently building Material3 for a framework called Droidscript to switch between dark and light mode you literally have to restart an app so I implemented signals to allow seamless switching without restarting an app 😊 imagine have to close an app then open it to switch themes 😭😭

[@oneofakind_tm]

Also in html you won't need to re render html to do something which is impressive

[@hamm8934]

My main worry is the use of signals outside of a UI context. I've seen some Vue code bases which use signals for basic API calls without any frontend component and it leads to a debug nightmare at times. They are great for UI updates though.

[@TayambaMwanza]

@@hamm8934 Reasonable comment

[@bikdigdaddy]

fireship io at home

[@awesome-coding]

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