Is it just me? No conclusion, no takeaway, nothing.

Thanks for this comment, I'm glad it's not only me. I came back feeling like, I enjoyed the article and it was a waste of time. Classic advice, where its only use is passing it on.

Maybe if you are copy-pasting some html templates, but then it is not “writing code”. Handwriting complex logic, at 5k sloc per day, no way.

That exists, it is called a nominal type system, while in your example the language has a structural type system.

Edit: Assuming your example is even statically typed.

Maybe you should repost here to reach a more qualified audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547609

Yes, I'm preparing my portfolio right now. Got a bit more time

Seems like you are a startupper from Hungary? Shoot me a mail, I love getting to know other local startuppers. (in profile)

Hey! I'm the founder of an early stage startup. The product was long in the making, about to release v2 and I planned to do sales myself.

I've played with the idea of this model myself, in the sense that it would be an interesting value-creating service. I'm open and also skeptical.

1) My product is software, you were in hardware. 2) Do you have a large existing rolodex? 3) How many startups do you plan on representing? 4) Where are you from & where are you located?

I'm not shy of talking to people. The biggest help for me would be prospecting and qualifying.

I'm in a rush, please reach out! Email in profile.

Every automated crawler follows human-driven actions.

Conversely, every browser is a program that automatically executes HTTP requests.

Yet they respect a lot of things meant for machine to machine interaction. Like server return codes, cookie negotiations, and CAPTCHAs if they behave a certain way.

So they sometimes hit bollards and turnstiles made for other types of code which executes HTTP requests. So they're bots basically, but better (or suitably) behaving ones.

Browsers let you visit websites without regard for robots.txt.

..and then he adds these movements need to have nanometer precision. WHAT?!

One example is when you want to display live data on a website. Could be a dashboard, a chat, or really the whole site. Polling is both slower and more resource hungry.

If it is built into your language/framework, you can completely ignore the problem of updating the client, as it happens automatically.

Hope that makes sense.

Interesting -- is that normally done with database updates + polling vs. something purpose-built?

Not sure how many such solutions there are out there so no idea about the norm. I doubt polling is a real option.

You may want to search for realtime databases.