Generally building something is not about "What does this teach us?" but rather "What can this be used for?". You don't build a house and as "What does this teach us?". It's honestly almost a perverse question to primarily ask for something that aims to have practical value.

The clear reason this has worth is that it's much faster than TSC.

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bdelmas 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

HN is going to be a weird place to be between people loving AI and the loss of loving tech. I don’t remember last time I watched a good tech dev video. At least the video game industry is a little bit shielded from this but soon it will be the same when we see the speed AI is advancing.

No more joy crafting things as a dev…!

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rowanG077 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't see at all that this is stifling love of tech. Sure if you liked to engage in language wars or vim vs emacs or tabs vs spaces then yes that's over. But tech as we know it is currently exploding, a ton of stuff that simply was not practically possible before is now possible.

	▲	doc_ick 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Give us some examples of things that were not practically possible. Things are practically possible if the time or money is wisely spent, even if it takes a human a bit longer.

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yoyohello13 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess I’m just perverted then.

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Capricorn2481 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's why the commenter said

> It’s just a less maintained, less tested implementation

Then they asked if it teaches something because it is a risky utility to them. You're trying to make it sound a lot weirder.

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rowanG077 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is that it's clearly not just a less maintained, less tested implementation. It's 1.61x faster for one in real world apps, in some case even almost 4x faster.

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Onavo 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I am curious why it's faster. Golang isn't that much slower than Rust, aside from the garbage collector. 4x performance improvements is much bigger than what I expected.

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Capricorn2481 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If that was your point, why did you spend a whole paragraph saying "teach us? What a perverse question."

	▲	rowanG077 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The comment I responded on put forth a generic argument that implied if we can not learn from it it has no value. That is what I was responding to.