Not sure if you were even looking for paper reviews.
I didn't write the article, I just shared it because I thought it was interesting.
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How Long Should a Function Be? (And Why It’s the Wrong Question to Ask)
(adamtornhill.substack.com)
I think you're misconstruing the author's argument, at no point does the author imply that Claude knows best, or that Electron apps are better. Their closing argument is certainly not an endorsement for Electron or AI slop.
Don’t get me wrong: writing this brings me no joy. I don’t think web is a solution either. I just remember good times when native did a better-than-average job, and we were all better for using it, and it saddens me that these times have passed.
I just don’t think that kidding ourselves that the only problem with software is Electron and it all will be butterflies and unicorns once we rewrite Slack in SwiftUI is not productive. The real problem is a lack of care. And the slop; you can build it with any stack.
Imagine being such a slop-brainwashed fanboi
Do you have any evidence for this? Looking through the post, and the author's other blog post titles, there is very little mention of AI or Claude.
Instead of throwing labels at the author, it's much more worthwhile to discuss their key argument about the challenges of developing native apps.
I wonder if we’ll end up in a situation of open source projects with closed source tests. Though I don’t know how that would work, because how would you contribute a new feature if the tests are closed? 🤔
Check against Can I Use, all of the APIs, except for the following are supported by major browsers:
- Synchronous Clipboard API only Safari has full support, the rest have partial
- Temporal only currently supported in Chrome and Firefox
The fact that people even bring javascript as the backend is a bit crazy to me.
To clarify do you mean replacing JavaScript just on the backend? This article is about using JavaScript on the front end.
I'm intrigued, what would you replace it with?
So to confirm, you don't trust blogs where the company is selling a product or service, even if they don't mention it in the article? If so, that would cover a lot of articles shared on this instance.
For what? I don't see any products or services being promoted in this article.
People who care about performance are using loops
Well that depends, generators are faster than loops when you're using Bun or Node.
If you're going to make that claim, could you please provide some evidence.