Following our previous episode on Richard P. Gabriel's Incommensurability paper, we're back for round two with an analysis of what we've dubbed the Worse is Better family of thought products:
Next episode, we've got a recent work by a real up-and-comer in the field. While you may not have heard of him yet, he's a promising young lad who's sure to become a household name.
Please, call me Nickieben — Mr. Bourbaki is my father.
A pony is a small horse. Also, horses have one toe.
Electron lets you build cross-platform apps using web technologies. The apps you build in it are, arguably, doing a bit of "worse is better" when compared to equivalent native apps.
Bun is a new JS runner that competes somewhat with NodeJS and Deno, and is arguably an example of "worse is better".
esbuild and swc are JS build tools, and are compared to the earlier Babel.
