drathier's comments

On: Show HN: Skir – like Protocol Buffer but better

[drathier]

https://capnproto.org/ has been my goto since forever. Made by the protobuf inventor

[jauntywundrkind → drathier]

I've been dabbling with the newer Cap'n Web, whose nicely descriptive README's first line says:

> Cap'n Web is a spiritual sibling to Cap'n Proto (and is created by the same author), but designed to play nice in the web stack.

It's just JSON, which has up and down sides. But things like promise pipelining are such a huge upside versus everything else: you can refer to results (and maybe send them around?) and kick off new work based on those results, before you even get the result back.

This is far far far superior to everything else, totally different ball-game.

I've been a little rebuffed by wasm when I try, keep getting too close to some gravitational event horizon & get sucked in & give up, but for more data-throughput oriented systems, I'm still hoping wrpc ends up being a fantastic pick. https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wrpc . Also Apache Arrow Flight, which I know less about, has mad traction in serious data-throughput systems, which being adjacent to amazingly popular Apache Arrow makes sense. https://arrow.apache.org/docs/format/Flight.html

[k_g_b_ → drathier]

*Made by the proto2 implementor, Kenton Varda

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kentonv

On: I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

[drathier]

Lots of web devs only testing in chromium browsers, perhaps?

[irrational → drathier]

What we do at my company is I only test in Firefox, another developer only uses Chrome, a third only uses edge and QA tests on Safari.

On: Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic

[drathier]

Why don't any of these websites have maps?

On: How the Python import system works

[drathier]

Lies!

On: StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

[drathier]

Did I just render that book obsolete?

[denfromufa → drathier]

Not sure what you mean..

On: StackOverflow Importer – Import code from Stack Overflow as Python modules

[drathier]

The code snippet it finds imports sleep and calls it directly. Fire it up in a repl and check __author__ or _code yourself :)