They were pleased to be faster than Go in the "Hello World" benchmark, but unfortunately, they lag behind Node.js and Deno in complex real-world workloads.
I recall an instance where he mocked the project as "Microslop" on his blog and then quietly edited the post later.
That aside, the earlier rewrite from TypeScript to Go involved efforts to minimize regressions as much as possible—such as announcements to users and the community, and a phased, one-on-one migration.
This project, however, is a different story. It becomes from a buggy product to an entire slop product.
> Microslop Windows provides a large ABI surface area for doing things in the kernel. However, not all ABIs are created equally. As Casey Muratori points out in his lecture, The Only Unbreakable Law, the organizational structure of software development teams has a direct impact on the structure of the software they produce.
Surprisingly, they appear to have not disclosed any vulnerabilities whatsoever. It's likely there have been numerous vulnerabilities in the past, but they are all being ignored.
Yeah! Why would the company that stands to make themselves look better in front of an IPO do such a thing?! Next thing you're going to tell me was that this whole rewrite was another marketing ploy to help potentially turn themselves in multi-millionaires!
Yes, it is helpful for a company to be very clear that in a choice between the safety and integrity of their customers, and profit, they are choosing profit.
Hey, did the memory leak really solve with slop rewrite?