Can you go into any additional detail about why firechat shut down?

making web apps is the least exciting thing wasm could be used for. plugin systems, embedded, serverless use cases are much more interesting off the top of my head.

i think we live in a world where we can do both: we can do wasm and we can continue making improvements to the big three webdev tools.

I think this article does a decent job of highlighting many of the reasons why Closure has fallen into obscurity. https://effectivetypescript.com/2023/09/27/closure-compiler/

That's a very interesting post.

I like closure compiler. It is somewhat related to GWT (which also perform similar manglings of names but since compilation from java means there's no expectation of preservation of field names, it doesn't come out as bad).

On the other hand, i also see why the npm ecosystem (and in general, the javascript ecosystem) isn't suitable for large scale systems programming. The fact that using a module from npm does not guarantee that the "original" source is part of your compilation, seems ass backwards to me.

I like the system that closure compiler implements, because it clearly delineates between source artifacts and compiled artifacts. It also pushes modules to "export" symbols, rather than by default export everything.

If only the javascript users from back when NPM was in their early days actually embraced the concept of compilation units, closure compiler would've been the gcc of the web development world.

It's a lost opportunity to have left it languish, since the compiled output is vastly superior to anything webpack or any other current minifiers can produce.

I feel so seen in such a bad way

Fantastic idea. Minor issue is that when you tap on one of the flags, you get the podcast episode notes but you don't get the title of the podcast. Title needs to be prominent.

thank you, feedback very helpful....we found one example where the title wasn't appearing with the pin, and hopefully have fixed that.

I might be misinterpreting what I'm seeing but I don't see titles on any of them. For instance, on one in southern California, the icon showing the podcast art makes it clear that the title of the podcast is Ridiculous History, but when I tap on it, I only see the episode title and have no other clue to tell me what podcast it actually is that this episode is part of.

Now that I'm describing it in more detail I think what I should have said initially is that I'm looking for the title of the podcast itself, not just the episode title.

I mean, that's almost exactly how mainstream Hollywood treats actors, women in particular, as well. It tracks to me.

Intentions are useless in this case. What matters are the incentives.

It's ok everyone, they must misspelled Go as Kotlin

The lake is great but it has good days and bad days like anything else. I lived near the lake for years and still think it's heart-rendingly beautiful. Flies weren't usually a problem, there are all kinds of animals living nearby that you wouldn't expect like seagulls, buffalo, etc.

And then yes there were occasional times where the lake would recede a bit and the smell could make you flinch from miles and miles away.

As others have said, the problem is the lake drying up from lack of incoming water.

The consequences of the lake drying up is the end of the "lake effect" cycle, the arsenic in the dried lakebed being released into the air, etc