It might be more accurate to say that he repopularized the term among a new generation of developers. Immediate vs Retained mode UI was just as much a thing in early GUIs.

It was a swinging pendulum. At first everything was immediate mode because video RAM was very scarce. Initially there was only enough VRAM for the frame buffer, and hardly any system RAM to spare. But once both categories of RAM started growing, there was a movement to switch to retained mode UI frameworks. It wasn’t until the early 00’s that GPUs and SIMD extensions tipped the scales in the other direction - it was faster to just re-render as needed rather than track all these cached UI buffers, and allowed for dynamic UI motifs “for free.”

My graying beard is showing though, as I did some gave dev in the late 90’s on 3Dfx hardware, and learned UI programming on Win95 and System 7.6. Get off my lawn.

While I don't agree with the OP about type systems, I understand what they mean about erlang. When an erlang node joins a cluster, it can't make any assumptions about the other nodes, because there is no guarantee that the other nodes are running the same code. That's perfectly fine in erlang, and the language is written in a way that makes that situation possible to deal with (using pattern matching).

This is more like HTMX+websockets than phoenix liveview.

  - It's not stateful
  - There's no html diffing
  - Handlers return target+fragment instead of updating state

Each user has their ID in the backend; you can save their status... if you want.

Jai, odin and zig's creators are all part of the handmade network, a community of programmers. You are vastly underestimating blow's reach/influence.

Odin's creator has credited Jai as an influence. You can see him in the comments of old jai youtube videos (videos that go into a lot of depth about the language design). Odin's syntax and features are very similar to Jai, the influence is pretty clear. Odin has other influences of course but you could say it's "jai but open source".

Lastly, jai is not open source but it doesn't mean it's not available. You can message blow to get access to it. Many programmers have used it. There are third party jai libraries on github.

I've never heard of Odin or seen any projects written in it, seen a company hire for it, or seen it discussed at a PL conference. There's no stable compiler for it, and no spec. Yeah, I'm just one person, so maybe I'm just in my own bubble, but these are hobby projects with a very small communities.

> Many programmers

...how many?

I'm no fan of Odin, but JangaFX[1] apparently uses it quite a bit. I believe EmberGen[2] is written[3] in Odin.

[1]: https://jangafx.com

[2]: https://jangafx.com/software/embergen

[3]: https://odin-lang.org/showcase/embergen/

You choose one or the other

In this case, if you needed this for whatever reason, I suspect the lease makes sense to not get stuck with a Gen1 product after the same cost point of 40 months.

IDK, this is not a problem I need to concern myself with. I’m clearly not the target demographic.

column types are more like guidelines than rules

Also when clicking from a search result to a video, it replaces the url instead of pushing to navigation history. So when I click into a video and try to go back, it takes me to the homepage instead of the search results! It only happens on mobile!

It's not meant for public use, but it's also not protected. Best documentation is the fastf1 project.

View transitions api, it's pretty new: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...

Surprisingly, Firefox of all browsers doesn't support it.

https://caniuse.com/view-transitions

That's a pretty major deal breaker for OP to leave out of his post touting it as something to build everything in your site on (especially for a tech blog)! Does it at least have a polyfill story? I see no mention of how to make it work on, uh, the other 15% of browsers worldwide, CanIUse is telling me.

If you use it in a browser that doesn't support view transitions, the pages just don't animate. no harm no fowl

It's not that surprising if you consider that all the browsers on that page, except for Firefox and Safari, are Chrome-based

Very cool, thanks!

    struct HealthState {
        model: String,
        chat_model: Option<String>,
        device: String,
        arch: String,
        cpu_info: String,
        cpu_count: usize,
        cuda_devices: Vec<String>,
        version: Version,
        webserver: Option<bool>,
    }

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