The go tooling and ecosystem and how it "just works" runs rings around the Java clowncar.

The classic "if it disagrees with me, it's a far-right neo-Nazi" rhetoric. Sadly thiss is becoming depressingly common in certain corners of tech discourse.

X has the best AI news, the best virality for good content and sure - it has a lot of shit, but community notes and curated feeds keep the noise low.

This. No other platforms has a system akin to CN's. For me personally, I could never stand using any platform that is aggressively tone policed towards whatever official truth. Not Truth Social, not BlueSky.

Other places are like playgrounds, X is where the adults go to talk.

> any platform that is aggressively tone policed

all platforms are tone policed, yes even real life. If you don't notice it, you're either not looking, or you agree with the tone.

Not all platforms are agressive about the tone-policing and "real life" is not a platform. AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life".

Also: scale and context matters. Someone telling you to shut up on a movie theater is not out of place, but whoever was next to you in the theater does not get to decide what you say in a bar or a PTA meetiing.

> AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life".

I mean thats just the legal system, its also deciding what is taught in schools, or churches (other religions are available). Currently in the USA there is "tone policing" about trans people. Laws are being put in place to enforce a certain style of living for people who are trans. Regardless of you opinion of trans people, that is very much real life tone policing.

> but whoever was next to you in the theatre does not get to decide what you say in a bar or a PTA meeting.

but the people in the bar/PTA meeting do. In the same way that newspaper decide who to publish, TV which programmes to air, student organisations what cause to adopt, charities what people to fight for.

I think you are saying that one organisation doesn't get to control the patterns and types of speech for an entire country, which is mostly true apart from a authoritarian places.

But, each platform has its own tone, be that X, bluesky, the local darts club, PTA, or church. that tone is enforced by the people who support/take part in that platform. Those rules vary by factions that live on those platforms. The issue with X/bluesky etc is that they make money by deliberately forcing separate factions to engage. If you fall out with your local pub, you find a different pub, and hopefully never see those people again. But that pub is selling you pints, not advertising. so it needs to keep you happy to keep you buying pints.

> justify the absurdity that present-day Twitter is.

Present day twitter is one man's increasingly sad slide into authoritarian/contrarianism. It is a mess of idiocy and malignant individualism.

My point is, that twitter is nothing different, it has it's own tone. If you notice it, then twitter is not the place for you anymore. If you don't then twitter is the right place for you.

> My point is, that twitter is nothing different

And my point is that Twitter is different because it has become a direct instrument from one single man to proselytize and shape the conversation.

> If you notice it, then twitter is not the place for you anymore. If you don't then twitter is the right place for you

By your logic, I don't belong anywhere because I notice the tone everywhere.

It still has the best AI news because users are not quitting it. Even the most fervent left leaning folks I know cannot quit it. Too bad it fell into the wrong hands and became a shell of its former self

Its not just in tech circles. It really started around 2020 with C. "Everyone needs to agree this time" extremely backfired and ruined our ability to discuss things.

Not really. George Orwell has noted this phenomenon in his 1946 book "Politics and the English Language". He attributes it to a knock-on effect of wartime propaganda.

what do you mean by "run AI"?

as in, providing self hosted models? or running Claude code/Codex? or using it for support? or what?

AI is an umbrella term. All AI models can hallucinate. There has been no solution to this problem. Until that problem is resolved, it is, in my opinion, something that only an idiot would run in production. I read about a company that had their whole codebase wiped out because they gave an agent access to be able to do that.

You're not really making a good point if you can't distinguish.

Fin.ai by telecom is a full product powered by LLMs and makes $100m ARR.

Make your point and save the attacks and maybe you can be helped.

Great write up of a problem that I'm glad Golang sidesteps

The problem with this is that it's systemic and central to Rusts trait-based ecosystem composition.

Go’s has a version but it's much smaller and more local. In Go, consumer-defined structural interfaces remove most of the pressure that causes the Rust problem in the first place which is producer led.

Sidesteps by not providing the same level of functionality.

As an analogy, it would be equivalent to say that "contrary to an airplane, a car sidesteps the problem of requiring wings".

Yes, indeed - but it doesn't fly.

Except writing rust doesn't feels like flying, it feels like falling.

One could argue flying is just controlled falling.

we went from the Linux and later Napster era of "information wants to be free" pretty quickly over the past decade.

Billions have been spent on changing our minds and our children so privacy and privacy are bad.

chrome was the fork. KHTML from Konqueror became webkit became Safari and chrome.

I still use Konqueror occasionally. It no longer uses KHTML (it uses blink now iirc through Qt webengine (which just got webextension support, someone's working on adding them to falkon so I'm sure Konqueror isn't too far behind)) but it works surprisingly well. It's still a great file manager if any of you remember how good it was

The current Labour Party is NOT Left by any definition.

hah. Could.

At university over a decade ago, we were looking at using Bluetooth/WiFi signals to create live room maps for military applications.

Since then, the tech has only got better.

It hasn’t been passed in that “voluntary” form either.

The architecture was designed for determinism and performance:

- Go WASM engineowns the scene graph, evaluates timelines, compiles draw commands

- Canvas2D frontend executes the command buffer (GPU-accelerated by the browser)

- Go backend handles collaboration, persistence, and video encoding via ffmpeg

- Operation-based document model - every mutation is an operation that supports undo/redo and real-time sync

We chose a command buffer architecture (engine emits draw commands, browser rasterizes) over Figma-style pixel rendering in WASM. Canvas2D is already GPU-accelerated, and Go's WASM ecosystem doesn't have a battle-tested software rasterizer. This gives us hardware rendering for free while keeping the engine deterministic.