they are native, the typescript is transpiled to c++

definitely do!

utopian for them, dystopian for us

so it's YOUR fault then, get em boys!

in all of hackernews' shitty UX decisions, gray unreadable comments is one of the worst ones

this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474143

huh i didn't even notice, that's how i write all my blog posts too. it looks nicer to me and i don't have to bother checking for "proper" capitalization if everything's just lowercase anyway.

didn't realize people struggled to read text that way though, maybe i should change my writing style if this is a common pain point

I personally find it slower to read text without capitalization. It helps me visually chunk information from different sentences, in the same way that line breaks separate ideas into different paragraphs. Without it, it’s sort of like a wall of text that I have to read more carefully to parse (although a closer reading perhaps isn’t bad).

A lot of the problem here is that the overall typography on this site is not particularly great. Better leading and tracking, narrower columns, bigger font would go a long way.

If you do everything else right you can skip sentence cap without sacrificing readability. Not that you necessarily should but it's a vibe if you want it, it suits some voices & documents well.

I'm sort of wondering why you think we capitalize the beginning of sentences if not to help the reader.

i just figured it was mainly stylistic tbh. something that may have been a relic of some past limitation that we kept around just because it was "how it's always done". didn't really realize it actually helps people with reading, it's never really bothered me

For what is worth, it is incredibly jarring to me as well (I am a middle millennial, not a boomer, and usually not prescriptivist about writing style). My knee-jerk reaction (I know, book by the cover...) is that it is probably not worth reading given that the writer did not think it is worth making it easy to read.

To me, it reads like a lazy fifth grader wrote it that just couldn't be bothered to press the shift key.

But this is not laziness, it's deliberately done signal being cooler than the rest.

It sucks.

(So does not adding a period at the end of a sentence)

> (So does not adding a period at the end of a sentence)

Yeah, it does

...string's aren't a pointer to a pointer to a character. they're pointers to characters directly.

maybe you need to wrestle with that concept some more...

couldn't you just embed the js directly into the html file though? that would sidestep the CORS error. and since most of the people using a program like this are likely to be using AI to generate their ( likely throwaway ) applets anyway, readability and maintainability for the source doesn't matter as much as it would with human authors so having a separate js file doesn't bring that many advantages anyway.

Sharing HTML files with embedded Javascript is problematic: iOS users can't open the files directly, and have to save the file and then 'open with ... '.

Sounds like iOS is problematic.

wow, that sounds revolutionary.