I'm not sure I agree, but I can see it used as an open-ended interview question. "Is English the new programming language?" It would be a good test if someone gravitates towards pedantry (AIs can speak another common language just as well!) or if they actually get into the difference between prompting and programming, or whether it's at its core an LLM or just an AI based on transformer architecture. Extra points for having it be part of an async interview and interviewees using an LLM to write the answer, and interviewers using LLMs to grade them.
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He's very familiar with standards-positions repos no doubt, and it reads like a typical defense against Google rolling something out without getting input. They don't suggest changes, they just try to throw out the whole thing. I think they might be hoping that if it ges thrown out, a collaborative effort will be formed to write if from scratch rather than start from the perspective of the Google Chrome team. I haven't seen it happen that way much, though, so I think it would be better if they just suggest specific changes to it rather than rejecting it.
This will be the last month of my Vercel Pro Plan for now. I logged into Vercel just now to see what day of the month the billing period ends so I can move any projects or backup metadata before then, and when I clicked it, the page had the title "March 2026: Monthly Pro Plan". Needless to say, the invoice will not be for March, by any stretch. On the same page it says "This invoice will continue updating until the end of your billing period on May 20."
People aren't ranting about Vercel just because of aversions to trends or their marketing style. It's also because it has legitimately been buggy too often. A year ago I commented on HN about some other issues I experienced and that doesn't include weirdness with their open source or AI stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43588909
That said, I still think Vercel is a reasonable choice. Just not my top choice right now.
With what Google is doing with Android sideloading, I'm not sure Google is a good partner for open source projects. As it says in the blog post, Zulip has a nice history with Google Summer of Code, but it might be good to let this be the last year. Zulip currently supports sideloading. https://zulip.com/apps/androidhttps://github.com/zulip/zulip-flutter#get-the-app That could get awkward later on. Though I guess if Zulip wants to remain in the Google Play Store, interaction with Google is unavoidable.
We can and should advocate for preserving sideloading.
But boycotting a wonderful public-benefit program that Google has funded for 20 years over this sort of product policy issue seems crazy to me. Sure, GSoC does improve Google's brand.
But Google Summer of Code is one of the most effective charitable programs I've seen from any large corporation. And I think it's very telling that nobody else does anything like it.
Google is is the only company on the planet that cared about supporting the open-source community enough to invest, fund, and administer a program like this that has _no_ direct benefit to the company. (Many corporate grants/sponsorships to OSS projects are in exchange for something tangible).
The scale of GSoC is enormous, and the program has been very meaningful. A huge portion of our contributor community and about half the Kandra Labs team are people who I originally met via GSoC.
SDL is written in C. So it can support it without too much trouble. And some people are compiling stuff to run on DOS. So it makes sense. And your objection doesn't hold any water.
No, this bug is specific to iTerm2. As for whether there is something as bad for ghostty floating out there, I would hope not. It's a strong goal for it not to be. In Ghostty (and also the terminal I currently use, WezTerm) modularity is prized. What belongs as a clear add-on feature such as this doesn't get to run without being configured first.
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