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Do we work at the same place? Lol

I totally get you, despite some pedantic disagreement about what “spam” means. I’m in the same boat a bit.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve kinda leaned into it in the sense that “if they’re gonna make us use it, then I want to be in a position to steer the direction”. While I discourage its use and preach to people about it’s evils, I also try to improve the AI tools and processes that we’re using. That probably makes me part of the problem, but it relieves a bit of the pressure of how shit it is day to day.

I’m actually kinda bearish on AI.
Or rather I think that either it’s a bubble that will pop, or before too long it’s gonna cause a global depression. Maybe a bit of paranoia and doomerism.

Eclipse che was, afaict, the first to really make major progress in this space.

Vscode and codespaces basically stole the whole thing… But then they actually provided it in a way that was easy to use.

So while I don’t like the theft, I think that the result is great, and I don’t like that OP lists it as something nobody wants.

Why are you including codespaces in there??? That’s a feature I wish more open-source projects made use of. Pristine working dev environments, on demand? Yes please

It doesn’t seem like an inherent problem of the domain, so idk why they wouldn’t just fix that, if that means writing their own LSP MCP, or even their own LSPs for major languages.

It’s crazy to me that cursor has been out for a while now, and it’s basically a fork of vscode, and it support tool use, but it doesn’t have the refactoring vscode tools as tools available to it.

Like there are tools out there that make sure that these kinds of changes won’t break anything and they’re just like “Naw dog, just give me access to the terminal and grep” wat.

Because reasonable APIs have input validation provided out of the box, so that not everybody has to reinvent the validation wheel (inevitably incorrectly).

Classic

Wait?

I feel the same way about python, too.

The way everything is just JavaScript and python, now, is really annoying.

Me, working on my personal hobby project, trying to integrate two totally unfamiliar platforms, in a programming language I’ve never used before.

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Poes law is hard at work here

Sympathy upvote

I think he means that of you initialize the variables, it becomes simpler but still unambiguous

Kinda.
Ignoring the pedantic take that nearly every website is a saas.
And the slightly less pedantic take that every interactive website is a saas

If your website is an app that does a thing that a user wants, it’s a saas.
Your website just does mpeg to gif transcoding? That’s a saas. Online text editor? SaaS. Online tamagotchi? SaaS.

If it doesn’t scale to the number of users who want or need to use it, then it’s not a very good SaaS. But SaaS it is.

What makes it “working”, is that the Software part of Software as a Service, is available as a Service.

The service doesn’t have to scale to a million users. It’s still a SaaS if it has one customer with like 4 users.

Is this a pedantic argument? Yes.
Are you starting a pedantic fight about the specific definition of SaaS? Also yes.

Lol they don’t need scaling and redundancy to work. They just need scaling and redundancy to avoid being sued into oblivion when they lose all their customer data.

As a full time AI hater, I fully believe that some code-specialized AI can write and maybe even deploy a full stack program, with basic input forms and CRUD, which is all you need to be a “saas”.

It’s gonna suck, and be unmaintainable, and insecure, and fragile. But I bet it could do it and it’d work for a little while.

I hope this is satire 😭

For a long time we’ve said it’s important to separate semantics and presentation (eg html vs css).

I’ve always wondered why we never followed our own advice when creating new programming languages. Let the IDE present whatever TF you want, and in the background it’s simply building an Abstract Syntax Tree and serializing that to a file in whatever serialization format it prefers.

I’ve dreamed of making my own data-flow language that follows that principle, but I have neither the knowledge of compilers nor the free time to try.