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apitmantoday at 5:42 PM1 replyview on HN

What I love about this is the reduction in complexity compared to how something like this would typically be built today.

If I were to build a synth a year ago I probably would have used Rust compiled to WASM and running in the browser. This thing has a lot of the same functionality, but you have about -30 million lines of code for the OS, -30MLOC for the browser, and another -30MLOC for Rust/LLVM.

And that doesn't even get in to the cost of materials or power savings.

Obviously it's not apples to apples but it really makes me wonder how much of that stack we need for most programs.


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parenthesestoday at 6:49 PM

It's a trade off as always. I agree though.

I wonder the same thing a lot. I also wonder how AI will fit into this problem.

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