Really excited about this! At least in Sublime Text I've found multiple cursors a really powerful tool for ad-hoc transformations on snippets of semi-structured text or instantly and visually applying the same edit on multiple similar lines.
The comment was especially about TypeScript. Unlike the ancient JavaScript versions best used for web sugar you're possibly thinking of, it's a highly pragmatic and well designed general purpose programming language with an unique and very powerful type system.
This is what I've done in those rare cases I've had to fix a bug in a tool or a library I've used professionally. I've also made sure to do that using online identities with no connection to my employer so that any small positive publicity for the contribution lands on my own CV instead of the bureaucratic company getting the bragging rights.
Developer-specific sandbox environments with hot code reload is the golden standard here but Localstack is great if you can't do that due to (usually IT deparment-related, not technical) reasons.
As someone with years of experience on serverless stuff on AWS I might be a bit biased BUT I'd argue serverless is the sweet spot for most applications. You need to remember however that most applications aren't your typical startups or other software products but simply some rather boring line of business software nobody outside the company owning it knows of.
Concerning how IT departments in most non-software companies are, the minimal operational burden is a massive advantage and the productivity is great once you have a team with enough cloud expertise. Think bespoke e-commerce backends, product information management systems or data platforms with teams of a handful of developers taking responsibility for the whole application lifecycle.
The cloud expertise part is a hard requirement though but luckily on AWS the curriculum is somewhat standardized through developer and solutions architect certifications. That helps if you need to do handovers to maintenance or similar.
That said, even as a serverless fan, I immediately thought of containers when the performance requirements came up in the article. Same with the earlier trending "serverless sucks" about video processing on AWS. Most of the time serverless is great but it's definitely not a silver bullet.
The 4.x series was the one where the ideas still making Plasma so powerful were seeded. While I loved KDE 3 the design for 4 seemed revolutionary. Too bad it was alpha/beta quality up until the 4.6 release years later. I fared through all the bugs, crashes and performance issues with a young student's determination (while running Fluxbox on the side) but I can very well understand people doing serious work had limited patience for the issues.
Anyhow, happy anniversary from a long-time KDE user!
This was also my concern after reading the reviews on the first model. I'm not the world's fastest hand-writer so I found the device surprisingly snappy and the latency - while perceivable if paying close attention to it - hasn't really bugged me at all.
reMarkable 2. I was looking for a sketching and note taking tool and got a decent eBook reader as a bonus. The UX is very nice and distraction-free. It works surprisingly well for drawing as well.
My only complaint is the lack of Linux support for the app that allows mirroring the screen to a computer. Would be really cool for sketching stuff during online meetings.