alt Hacker NewsWhat? Technology has stopped making sense to me. Drawing a UI with React and rasterizing it to ANSI? Are we competing to see what the least appropriate use of React is? Are they really using React to draw a few boxes of text on screen?
I'm just flabbergasted.
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xpe • today at 2:38 AM
There is more than meets the eye for sure. I recently compared a popular TUI library in Go (Bubble Tea) to the most popular Rust library (Ratatui). They use significantly different approaches for rendering. From what I can tell, neither is insane. I haven’t looked to see what Claude Code uses.
TZubiri • today at 2:43 AM
It's AI all the way down
But it's very subsidizes when compared to API tokens, so we are all being paid by VCs to write prompts actually.
The further I scroll the more validated I feel for having the very same reaction.