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Jul 29, 2018 at 07:10

CPU clock speed, FLOPS, number of cores, die shrinking: progress in all these areas is now much slower. What areas of tech are still exponential?

Dec 4, 2025 at 10:37

Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!

Progress on TypeScript 7 - December 2025 - TypeScript

Earlier this year, the TypeScript team announced that we’ve been porting the compiler and language service to native code to take advantage of better raw performance, memory usage, and parallelism. This effort (codenamed “Project Corsa”, and soon “TypeScript 7.0”) has been a significant undertaking, but we’ve made big strides in the past few months. We’re […]

Jan 29, 2023 at 23:45

I don't have a favourite 'just an integer' type in Rust. I was writing a progress function for a Rust program that counts up to 20 input files. u64 is sometimes fiddly, usize makes me think about indexing, and u32/u16/u8 make me think that something is performance sensitive.

Jul 28, 2022 at 16:35

I haven't found a nice way of reporting "N/N tasks done" in progress interfaces. Users don't like seeing "Baking cakes 10/10 (100%)", especially if the last cake is slow. It's weird to them to see 100% when you haven't finished, but mathematically it's logical.

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