rwaldron's comments

On: Johnny-Five v1.0 – JavaScript Robotics and IoT Fra...

[rwaldron]

That's correct, but only half correct :)

Johnny-Five programs can run on board any SBC that runs Linux and can support Node.js. For those platforms, GPIO and serial bus interfaces are interacted with directly; examples include Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison (+Galileo 1 & 2, Joule), Tessel 2, Linino and pcDuino

[jerrysievert → rwaldron]

a little off-topic, but I haven't seen you in a while - how'd the strongman look end up?

On: In web design, everything easy is hard again

[rwaldron]

"linting" is subjective, preferential—not required.

Python built linting into the language itself and it's super annoying.

On: In web design, everything easy is hard again

[rwaldron]

> behaviour is well defined.

True, and we could go one step further: it's unambiguously defined, with invariant rules that can be used to prove a conformant implementation.

[heavenlyblue → rwaldron]

Yet we still struggle with making sure we've got all of the tools that could check the mistakes I have accidentally made before I had shipped the code.

XMPP had been defined as formally: where have we ended up with it now?

On: In web design, everything easy is hard again

[rwaldron]

> Looks like it's been fixed in ES5

That was published 9 years ago.

On: In web design, everything easy is hard again

[rwaldron]

9999999999999999 > Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER === true

JavaScript numbers are IEEE754 double precision floating point format.

On: In web design, everything easy is hard again

[rwaldron]

PL = Programming Language

On: “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from...

[rwaldron]

Actually, 4 years ago and then again 3 years ago I said it was a total disaster. I have mountains of email reports from an audit of the project.

[_0w8t → rwaldron]

4 years ago boot-to-gecko was still at the rather early stage and it was not possible to see how it would end. Given the need to diversify for Mozilla it was reasonable to proceed to get at least one shipping device. Even 3 years ago with the first phone release one could argue that continuing with the project was not totally unreasonable. But 2 years ago the market message was crystal clear.

On: Launching NginScript

[rwaldron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX7wtNOkuHo

On: Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for moder...

[rwaldron]

You're conflating "JavaScript the programming language" with "DOM, the awful sack of shit".

Don't do that.

On: Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for moder...

[rwaldron]

Yes, performance comparisons, but those could've been measurements of no-op versions of functions by the same name.