What is Jonathan Blow's WPM?

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[@alexnoman1498]

seamlessly went into a "software is garbage" rant, amazing!

[@outofranger]

Classic jon

[@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384]

lol

[@tx7300]

smoothest transition ive ever seen, this is truly cinema

[@Ashanmaril]

Poor guy can’t even do an innocuous bit without bad software ruining it

[@Sun_Seeker]

This was his fault. I tested this in Emacs 29 and it doesn't hang like that when using tree sitter highlighting instead of the regexp-based highlighting font lock uses by default.

[@RyanMcQuen]

Sometimes Jon is just hilarious.

[@zygocact5947]

"If you put too many "w"s in your program... Well, who knows what'll happen if there's too many "w"s in your program?" Guess we know now.

[@Emrox]

wow that is an advanced reference

[@mendelovitch]

@@Emrox I need an advanced explanation to get that reference. Could you give me an explanation in advanced Jonology?

[@zygocact5947]

@@mendelovitch kzbin.info/www/bejne/boaqgGZ7fJp3eZo

[@Seacle14]

@@mendelovitch You'll have to watch the video where he unboxes the Razer keyboard

[@Dr.UldenWascht]

I was beating him by a few letters at first when he stalled but then he did that amazing Ctrl+C=>Ctrl+V magic trick and bamboozled me. Jon doesn't pull rabbits out a hat, he pulls out kangaroos. He is the kind of guy who gets constants Ws ... and all on his own.

[@error17_]

Many lessons to be learned here

[@abuzzedwhaler7949]

Half expected this to end in him writing a typeracer competitor

[@chepulis]

I see the W key is still a little skippy.

[@oleksandrnahnybida3167]

lmao, nice one)

[@tomasz-rozanski]

WPM - Wins Per Minute

[@PabloPerroPerro]

I love these videos

[@BrandNewByxor]

I was laughing for 30 seconds at the absurdity of WWWWWW before I understood the joke

[@mendelovitch]

I didn't get the joke until reading your comment. ~_~

[@XeZrunner]

oh my god...

[@paulc2448]

What a masterpiece, I love it ^^'

[@hasen_judi]

Just for giggles I tried this in vs code and it handled it fine even though I put over a million 'w' chars on the same line. I was expecting it to slow down .. but it handled it fine ..

[@SkeleTonHammer]

VS Code is extremely snappy and beautiful, IMO. I've been consistently shocked by it. If I'm just writing scripts and don't need to compile anything (like, I'm making a game in Unity) I always use Code now.

[@Jack-sy6di]

@@SkeleTonHammer I mean... if I comment out a line in like a 200 line C file, it takes VS code about five seconds to update the syntax highlighting

[@Radgerayden-ist]

It's because emacs does per line highlighting, if Jon had used line breaks it would have been fine.

[@rektifyr...]

@@Jack-sy6di that's probably the language server's™ fault. It's one of the many things that'll get Jon to go on a rantage. -(get it? like rampage, but with rants?)-

[@tx7300]

vsc can handle files like 100MB big, it's pretty goddamn solid

[@helpxio_2689]

This man is a true genuis. It scares me.

[@nintendude794]

Epic gamer move

[@monke5100]

Nice one

[@SimGunther]

All of a sudden this went from "guess how many Ws I can copy/paste in a minute" to "see why Emacs is the bane of my existence?" That's why there's vim/neovim or, hear me out on this, he can write his own editor! Not sure why he hadn't already done his Jai tech stack over a few weekends so he can get his lightening fast editor, terminal emulator, and debugger while he's at it.

[@SimGunther]

@@matthias6933 Seeing him use any modal editor would be hilarious!

[@boblefest]

Vim has the same issue -- it doesn't handle long lines well.

[@SimGunther]

@@boblefest Can confirm that vim/geany/neovim chug for several seconds on a 2M character line and IDEs just refuse to respond at all when faced with such a gargantuan line of text (like WTF???) while a plain old GUI text editor like notepad (no fancy IDE nonsense) handles it just fine.

[@Cons-Cat]

Xi is currently the fastest editor backend I am aware of.

[@CaptainWumbo]

@@boblefest set syncolmax to something sensible or turn off syntax highlighting. I don't think vim with nothing on has any trouble with long lines. You can run into simlar issues with complicated foldexpressions, not really vim's fault.

[@AnimeGIFfy]

"people ask me how to become good at programming"

[@zeon137]

Wouldn't have guessed he's a Nick Cave fan

[@fakename8543]

It takes energy to be that much of a smart ass lol

[@guilhermecampos8313]

"but don't worry, garbage collection is just fine" hahaha

[@ChaosPootato]

What a troll

[@jokerpb4778]

OMEGALUL

[@ctx4241]

my WPM is gated by emacs at this point 🤣

[@mehmetakyuz5290]

KEKW

[@rp627]

dang, emacs is struggling on..... text size??

Omg this Emacks IDE is so bloated and soooo slow! Why doesn't Jon program in something made before 2000s? (only Jon's fans will appreciate this joke)

[@SimGunther]

Our super power is that we're old, so we knew how fast software was "back in the day"

[@alexnoman1498]

so, 1? :D

[@jps6734]

I saw more W's than that.

[@gracefool]

Ws per minute, not words, you silly

[@nintendude794]

Epic W

[@willemsiers6732]

lol

[@Sasha-rl6lv]

Would be faster if he used LSP

[@enricotrudu6760]

Aahahahahahahhhahaha

[@4.0.4]

I really don't understand why people use command-line text editors then. Even some electron-based IDE that runs Javascript every time you press a button is more responsive than that.

[@outofranger]

Try to paste so many Ws

[@johnanth]

This is graphical emacs, not the command line version. The answer is functionality and also that it won't choke even if you load a 1gb large text file (vim will by the way).

[@stephenkamenar]

@@outofranger no slowdown in sublime text pasting all those w. and i think sublime text is python. the slowest language

[@Jennifer-ow1xz]

@@stephenkamenar sublime is written in C/C++ with GTK.

[@Cons-Cat]

@@stephenkamenar Saying Python is the slowest language first requires a philosophical debate on what a "programming language" means. Python is, imo, a code syntax. There are Python interpreters for this syntax, and there are Python compilers for this syntax. While ahead-of-time compiled Python is not likely to be as optimized as ahead-of-time C#, largely due to duck typing, the performance difference in many domains is practically negligible. Interpreted Python is not likely to be much slower, if it's not maybe even faster, than interpreted C++.

[@Mrmr-nw4eu]

Doesn't wpm mean word per minute? So the question is actually asking how fast he can type, right? I don't get it, instead of writing words and time himself, he just kept pressing down a button. Am I missing something?

[@ericpark3746]

"w" per minute. He joking

[@LimDul]

/r/woosh

[@Mrmr-nw4eu]

@@ericpark3746 Thanks. Well, I must say he has not much talent in that department. He didn't give out any hint he was about to joke.

[@Mrmr-nw4eu]

@@LimDul :)

[@rockyaboba9466]

My god...

[@wisnoskij]

It is sort of insane just how horrible vim and emac is. under heavy development for like my entire life, and they cannot handle basic text rendering. Notepadd++ is like the only application ever created capable of competently and efficiently rendering text to the screen.

[@drygordspellweaver8761]

I like npp but sublime is great too

[@Vitorruy1]

shame it's not available for mac

[@marcs9451]

Vim is fast if you change its horrible defaults and use a decent IO lib, which is what Neovim does