Speed is not my problem today, so what's the point if it's not solving my personal problem? Speed was my problem yesterday, and probably will be again tomorrow, but today it isn't and I don't know why random people I don't know aren't invested enough in solving my today problem.
Even worse, they're trying to get paid for it!
Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough? Personally, I've waited for my much slower tools to finish plenty of times, I've only run a subset of the tools because I didn't want to wait for all of them to finish every time, and I've avoided configuring them because I'd have to figure out which one does what and how to configure each one.
Yes, it's a rearchitecture, which brings with it the pain of rearchitectures—mainly not supporting the bespoke tools built with the old architecture—but isn't it a good idea to identify when the existing base is problematic and be able to demonstrate that a superior solution could be gained by starting over? And they've even gone to the effort of bringing in the 90% case by encompassing the functionality of several existing tools!
I would understand the complaints better if you were somehow suddenly unable to run any of your existing stuff, but this isn't an incompatible upgrade to an existing project.
The user expresses their frustration with the critics by sarcastically asking what it would take to impress them. They believe that the new technology offers significant benefits and that the complaints seem unjustified.
HN is never happy. Everything should be fast, simple, configurable, extensible, portable, retro-compatible, future-proof, environmentally-friendly, inclusive, offline-first, and above all free.
For some people, nothing is ever good enough. Such is the nature of getting feedback from strangers. The sooner you learn to filter out the naysayers, the better.
This tool is probably fine. But positive feedback is usually expressed as an upvote.
> Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough?
It is great accomplishment for ruff the project. But the topic here is the launch of Astral the company, not ruff the project. And 1000x speed increase is not a business plan.
Meh. Fair point, but that isn't the only topic being discussed. And when the topic is whether ruff the tool is worthwhile, the discussion is more a pile of complaints.
I agree that the topic you're describing, and that is suggested by the URL posted, are worth talking about. It makes me nervous to invest time into a VC-backed linter. Though it seems useful enough to be forkable if things go sour.
"VC-backed linter" is a bizarre phrase, though honestly I think you could have described something like Purify in Ye Olden Days as a linter, and it was worth spending money on. (And the issues with being VC-backed go well beyond simply being whether or not something is worth spending money on.)
Speed is not my problem today, so what's the point if it's not solving my personal problem? Speed was my problem yesterday, and probably will be again tomorrow, but today it isn't and I don't know why random people I don't know aren't invested enough in solving my today problem.
Even worse, they're trying to get paid for it!
Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough? Personally, I've waited for my much slower tools to finish plenty of times, I've only run a subset of the tools because I didn't want to wait for all of them to finish every time, and I've avoided configuring them because I'd have to figure out which one does what and how to configure each one.
Yes, it's a rearchitecture, which brings with it the pain of rearchitectures—mainly not supporting the bespoke tools built with the old architecture—but isn't it a good idea to identify when the existing base is problematic and be able to demonstrate that a superior solution could be gained by starting over? And they've even gone to the effort of bringing in the 90% case by encompassing the functionality of several existing tools!
I would understand the complaints better if you were somehow suddenly unable to run any of your existing stuff, but this isn't an incompatible upgrade to an existing project.
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