I’ll never forget watching Gary Bernhardt give his talk on JavaScript.[0] Was my introduction to asm.js, and the rabbithole associated with compiling code to run in the browser.
12 years on, it’s shocking how much of his fiction became reality.
Do you foresee this changing anytime soon? Would love to contribute but also I think community adoption and contribution would go along way in terms of businesses less worried about single points of failure.
It’s hard balance to strike for sure. And it’s getting weirder by the day with agents.
This is nuts.
But give me some rope here, how much of react renders in Vello. Like is Vello taking the place of the shadow DOM here or is the entire DOM being render on a WASM thread somehow.
Now do this in containers with gMSAs. It eliminates the need of passing around Admin creds. Which I cannot stress enough. You shouldn’t be throwing your DA credentials into your random Linux machine’s Kerberos cache.
Amazon open sourced a project trying to solve similar problems.
UV and the crew at Astral really moved the Python packaging community forward.
I would love to see them compete with the likes of Conda and try to handle the Python C extension story.
But in the interim, I agree with everyone else who has already commented, Pixi which is partly built atop of UV’s solver is an even bigger deal and I think the longer term winner here.
Having a topologically complete package manager who can speak Conda and PyPi, is amazing.
12 years on, it’s shocking how much of his fiction became reality.
[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...