Can anyone comment on how fast it is on macOS compared to Safari or Brave? On browserbench speedometer I'm getting 29.3 on Orion and 7.70 on Safari. I'd appreciate more comparisons.

macOS 15.6 / M4 Max

  Orion (0.99.135.0.1-beta) - 22.8
  
  Orion RC (0.99.135.0.1-rc)  - 22.6
  
  Firefox 141.0 - 30.7
  
  Chrome (138.0.7204.184) - 36.7
  
  Safari (18.6)- 41.6

Orion feels as snappy as Safari though, even as a beta. Firefox feels like the slowest here :shrug:

> VLIW is not practical in time-sharing systems without completely rethinking the way cache works

Just curious as to how you would rethink the design of caches to solve this problem. Would you need a dedicated cache per execution context?

That's the simplest and most obvious way I can think of. I know the Mill folks were deeply into this space and probably invented something more clever but I haven't kept up with their research in many years.

> those that bought into it wholeheartedly couldn’t take the criticisms.

"invested"

Most interesting news: https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2024/02/apple-tv-announces-...

I really hope they do it well. Some of the things that were new in Neuromancer are tropes these days. e.g. the payphone ringing, in the Matrix and more relevantly in Person of Interest.

It's going to be very hard to navigate between faithfulness to the book and still have it feel fresh.

That and inherent difficulty of taking Gibson's prose to the screen. Maybe it will be by voiceover.

Voiceover worked surprisingly well for Murderbot, so I hope we'll see more of that.

The only cipher there is AES, the rest are not.

Meanwhile in Europe it’s the opposite.

You can still survive without Facebook-crap perfectly. On the other hand it's hard to survive without either an Android or iPhone device.

Though doing without WhatsApp is getting dicey with a preschooler in a couple of activities, and it will probably get even harder to keep my heels dug in once he's in school...

Whatsapp is essential unless you’re a hermit and don’t have kids.

New drama club my youngest has joined only sends messages out on Facebook, which is even worse.

Survive, yes, but you will loose out on connections with other people. For some of us that is a price worth paying but it is still a price.

its pretty easy to "survive". Why do you make it seem like life and death??

Soon I will not be able to pay taxes without such a device. As everyone knows, without taxes, the only other remaining certainty is death.

i dont believe you. I bet there is a way, if you really press the authorities. They are so greedy for money that its certainly possible.

The people who make Microsoft Teams should learn from this.

Stuff like this is exactly why I come to Hacker News.

What’s that got to do with the number of authors?

A study that cannot be replicated is a study that cannot be falsified. Authors don't mind putting their names on them because there's no accountability to be held and is purely net positive (one more publication and additional citations).

> It’s like Go meets Java, but in a great way.

I am struggling hard to imagine how any greatness could be achieved from that. Can you say a bit more?

Dart allows you to write compact and clean code, like GO. Dart properly supports classes and is feature-rich, like Java.

I think those are the main points for the above comment

Compact and clean is very far from my experience writing a very simple library management app with flutter. The framework literally gets in the way. You can't do anything without having to deal with some convoluted callback mechanism. You can't manipulate any object without some forced async crap. And it's so verbose. Despite my best efforts to keep things clean and organized, I get lost in the very small codebase after a couple of weeks. It's got to the point where I'm just rewriting it with Qt quick instead. It was my first time touching both flutter and dart, so maybe it's all subjective, but right now I think it's just a badly designed language/framework.

We must have very different definitions of compact, with Go requiring dozens of lines of boilerplate where other languages make do with one line of '?' or '.filter'.

I think we know what made it not popular then

Amazing tooling meets more than okay language.