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harrisiyesterday at 9:03 PM4 repliesview on HN

Maybe I'm taking crazy pills, but I swore there have been very similar comments I've seen as the current top post by weakfish:

> Maybe I’m taking crazy pills, but I’m still stuck on “why the hell does a TUI need to run in terminal React by way of JavaScript”

> The fact that Anthropic felt the need to buy a runtime so they could make their TUI better speaks more to the quality of engineering than anything else IMO.

> If rewrites are so easy, why not rewrite CC in a native language? Would’ve been a hell of a lot cheaper.

It turns out, there's some similar sentiments in the last year ish:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043325

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105720

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001113

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124596

I'm not a fan of any of the technologies, companies, or people related to this. I just couldn't shake the feeling that I've seen similar comments.

September and all.


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vdfsyesterday at 10:25 PM

Maybe because the 1st thing any experienced technical person would think about? It's like rebuilding and optimizing the racing track to make F1 run faster.

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harrisiyesterday at 9:10 PM

I don't want to edit this to change the narrative, but I wanted to clarify that I'm not not a fan of all of the technologies or people related to this. As far as compan{y,ies} go, though, well..

lionkortoday at 8:07 AM

It's because rewrites are almost always a bad decision. Best case, it's a naive decision made by people who don't know better, worst case it kills the product (who here uses netscape?).

So, from the start, people will be skeptical of a "we rewrote xyz in Rust" because it rarely works out. But there's a lot more to this, in fact it's a little bit loaded with "tech bro" ideas:

- Rewriting in Rust

- Rewriting using AI

- Making terminal apps in JS

- Zig (a lot of people's dear language) is involved somehow

This attracts every single skeptical developer. The only thing missing is maybe blockchain, if that was still cool. It just hits all the "what? why?" spots.

I was already writing a comment, when I realized that what I wanted to write had already been said by the top comment. I suppose that's why comments read so similarly.

dundariousyesterday at 11:14 PM

What's the implication or inference based upon this? So you're seeing comments sharing a general attitude. And?

As it is now, your post is meaningless to me.