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Electron Bad
Javascript Webdev Frontend Programming C++
3 months ago 26.6M views 0 shares
Electron Bad
The eternal developer dilemma: take the sunny path to the magical castle of proper native app development, or venture into the dark, RAM-devouring thunderstorm that is Electron. Sure, Electron lets you slap a website into a desktop wrapper and call it a day, but you'll be shipping a 200MB "hello world" app that eats memory like it's at an all-you-can-consume buffet. Meanwhile, compiling to WASM is the noble path—lean, fast, and actually respectable—but requires you to know what you're doing. Most devs just want their website to be an app without learning C++ or Rust, so they choose the path of darkness and 8 Chrome instances running simultaneously.

The Actually Complete Web Stack
Programming Linux Webdev AWS Javascript
10 months ago 564.8K views 6 shares
The Actually Complete Web Stack
The internet: a towering Jenga stack of technologies where one sneeze could bring down half the web. At the bottom, you've got Linux doing the heavy lifting while DNS pretends it's not held together with duct tape and prayers. AWS and Cloudflare are just there collecting rent on the whole operation. The real MVPs? Those unpaid open-source developers who fix critical bugs at 2AM because someone complained on GitHub. Meanwhile, V8 and WASM are up there making "things happen in the web" while Microsoft flies around like an Angry Bird, doing whatever Microsoft feels like today. And AI? Just a tiny appendage bolted on that everyone pretends is driving the whole machine. The perfect representation of what happens when you build civilization on a foundation of "it compiled, ship it."

Now Which One Of You Wrote This Library
React Javascript Frontend Programming Webdev
1 year ago 389.4K views 0 shares
Now Which One Of You Wrote This Library
Found in the wild depths of npm: a package called "react-buttplug" that connects React to... well, exactly what you think. The description "Here there be WASM" is the cherry on top of this cursed sundae. The fact that someone spent actual development hours creating a React provider for Buttplug.io (a real "intimate hardware" API) and then published it with that name is peak developer humor. Five years later and zero dependents - shocking absolutely no one. This is what happens when you tell developers "you can build anything" without adding "but please don't."

Aborted Virtual Machine
Programming Webdev Backend Javascript
1 year ago 406.5K views 0 shares
Aborted Virtual Machine
The classic tale of developer overengineering, brought to you by "pingusVM" - a project that died before it lived. Nothing screams "I've been coding too long" like deciding your VM needs both stack AND register-based architecture when one would've done just fine. Meanwhile, WebAssembly is sitting there like "been there, solved that" while our ambitious dev realizes they've reinvented a square wheel. The best projects are the ones you abandon after that 2AM moment of clarity when you realize you're competing with an entire team at Google. But hey, at least they got a funny name out of it. RIP pingusVM (2023-2023) - we hardly knew ye.