What's your opinion about Svelte? Has it made any big contributions to the ecosystem? Isn't the syntax and in general the way of creating components more intuitive with Svelte in comparison to for example React?
I think Vincent van Gogh, started seriously painting in his late 20s. Needless to say in his brief overall career as a painter he made some works which had a great impact in the art scene after his own death.
I am also a big Elm fan, especially due to the maintainability as you mentioned. But I have never worked with it in a production environment. Just in case you were working with a team on this project, how easy was it to convince the rest of the team to hop on the Elm train? Have you encountered any shortcomings while using Elm in production?
I also thought WhatsApp is a bad example. They not only hosted themselves, but they used solely FreeBSD (as far as I know) in their servers. (which don't get me wrong, I find great as a FreeBSD sysadmin myself).
Using WhatsApp as an example of a lean engineering org should almost be banned at this point. WhatsApp had a high performing engineering team that used basically the perfect set of tools to build their application (which also had a narrow feature scope; plaintext messaging). Even with hindsight there is very little you could do to improve on how they executed.
Just because WhatsApp scaled to almost half a billion users with a small engineering team doesn't mean that's the standard, or even achievable, for almost all teams.
I recently developed a command line chat app that I can self-host, to chat with my friends from the terminal and regain control over my chat data and metadata. I self host the back end in Linode and just for the lolz and "Unix portability" I wrote it entirely in C. I don't really expect this to be useful to anybody else than me and the couple of friends that also use it. I can now chat from the terminal during my working hours and my colleagues think that I am doing something mystical in the terminal or developing in Vim.
I would maybe start migrating repos away from GitHub, since they have proven to be quite unreliable. Nonetheless, I must say I do appreciate GitHub's UI and even their CLI is quite nice. Is there a service out there that basically provides the same good user experience, CI/CD and has no costs for public repos?
Apart from the unreliability I can't complain about GitHub.
github is still kind of friendly to noscript/basic (x)html browsers. I dunno how long it will last before $soft turns github into gitlab, namely explicitely hostile to noscript/basic (x)html browsers.
I did move my repos to "free" basic git hosting services on the net.
What would you need for today "development" (broad definition) of "popular" components: a web front end, an issue tracker, a mailing-list, a git server (ssh-ed write, http/https read).
The web front end is static html.
noscript/basic (x)html is beyond than enough for an "issue tracker" (cf bugzilla), including account creation (google javascript only-captcha is really nasty).
The mailing-list would need to implement grey listing for subscription (which would be disabled once the subscription process is done). The naive usage of spamhaus lists by many sysadmins of email servers is really toxic for self-hosted ppl or users of small email services.
The git server, well, the git server.
This is significant upfront work, not to mention the maintenance with the permanent "attacks" from corpo/state-sponsored paid/brain-washed saboters to deal with.
I understand why many devs are caving-in: they endup using those gitlab-like free and ready development hosting services because of the "path of least resistance".
This is a very toxic pitfall, because those hosting services forces ppl to use the absurdely huge and grostesquely complex google(blink/geeko) or apple(webkit) based browsers where noscript/basic (x)html browsers should be more than enough for most, if not all, core online development functions.
> Is there a service out there that basically provides the same good user experience, CI/CD and has no costs for public repos?
The answer is no. Other UIs are much worse in my experience. I haven't given Gitlab a good shake in a while though. That said, the network effects of Github are pretty significant. Everybody's on it, lots of major repos and orgs use it.
GitHub the source store is fine and very stable. It’s all the new features that seem half baked. Unfortunately we’re using Actions because it was a
Faster workflow to get builds out. Not so much right now
The article might be quite old (I myself barely identify the microsoft tech stack he is referring to), but his description of the struggle with productivity is still spot on. I read this from time to time to not feel bad about myself for struggling with not being productive.
