biwills's comments

I disagree, many companies are still great even after going public in the last decade:

Shopify, Cloudflare, Zoom, Spotify, Roblox, and Coinbase are all notable examples.

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The biggest problem I see is that, like static/dynamic typing, it's usually a boil-the-ocean problem. Most languages have historically been static or dynamically typed. Only recently have TypeScript and Python allowed for migration from dynamic to static typing, introducing millions(?) of developers to static types in the process.

With errors, it's hard since many languages can throw errors anywhere, so it's hard to feel like any function is "safe" in terms of error handling. That's one of the reasons why `enwrap` returns a generic error alongside any other result: to support incremental adoption.

If you have a chance to check out `enwrap` and have feedback, email me! (link in bio)

The more I write software, the more I think errors should be first-class citizens (camp #2 from the OP's post).

I've been using https://github.com/biw/enwrap (disclaimer: I wrote it) in TypeScript and have found that the overhead it adds is well worth the safety it adds when handling and returning errors to users.

That said, I see parallels between the debate about typed vs. non-typed errors and the debate of static typing vs. dynamic typing in programming languages.

Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty) has been my go to for many years and with tmux it's fantastic.

I have heard a lot of great things about https://ghostty.org/ but haven't had a chance to check it out

edit: oops, I misread your question as "what alternatives are there"

I'd say it's less about covering all edge cases and more about showing that text editors are insanely complex, and it doesn't take long to find edge cases that text editors with 10s/100s of millions of users have.

This reminds me of Marijn Haverbeke's, the author of CodeMirror and Prosemirror, blog post about making the first version of CodeMirror

https://codemirror.net/1/story.html

From the description of the repo on GitHub:

> I created this in 2014, the year I learned how to program. All of the downloads are from an old version of https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch.

Yes, but we have more details on our cloud offering coming soon

Hey HN,

Excited to share Mobile Tethering, our latest feature release on Faraday.dev. It lets you run local LLMs on your Mac/Windows Computer (Linux soon) and seamlessly use them to chat with AI on mobile. Since all the heavy workloads run directly on your computer (instead of on an expensive cloud server), it's 100% free to use, and your chat data is never stored or logged in the cloud.

I'm one of the founders of Faraday.dev, so would love to hear any ideas you have on what we should build next!

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PS: For those who've never used Faraday – it's a zero-config desktop app for creating AI characters (custom chatbots) powered by locally running LLMs. Faraday can run on CPU with only 8GB of RAM via llama.cpp by @ggerganov, and the app will automatically use your GPU to speed things up. We also have a community-driven Character Hub, text-to-speech, lorebooks, and more.

Yes. Here's a quick rundown of grammar in llama.cpp (link on the docs of faraday.dev which runs llama.cpp under the hood)

https://docs.faraday.dev/character-creation/grammars

We are doing this with https://Faraday.dev - would love to chat more - my email is on my profile!

we've been looking at at a lot of custom models for https://faraday.dev (shameless plug)

There's already some interesting fine tuned llama2 models:

- https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Redmond-Puffin-13B - https://huggingface.co/Tap-M/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored