Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (April 15, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for April 15, 2023 :</p>
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Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
Summary: The author argues that the development of closed ecosystems, particularly in mobile development, wastes engineering talent and time, as developers end up reinventing the wheel for each ecosystem. The problem is exacerbated by big tech companies creating walled gardens, resulting in different UI toolkits, layout engines, runtime languages, SDKs, and app stores. While cross-platform solutions like React Native and Flutter solve the problem of writing everything twice, they are still closed ecosystems that lock developers into specific languages and modules. The author suggests building standalone platform-agnostic modules, such as Yoga and Taffy, and using common interfaces like JSI to promote collaboration and innovation across ecosystems. The author cites examples of Skia and React Native Gesture Handler being ported to different ecosystems, but notes that ongoing maintenance remains a burden.
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WebGPU Fundamentals
Summary: The article is a set of resources aimed at helping readers learn the basics of WebGPU. It includes articles on topics such as inter-stage variables, uniforms, storage buffers, vertex buffers, textures, importing images, constants, data memory layout, WGSL, 3D math, translation, rotation, scale, matrix math, orthographic projection, perspective projection, cameras, matrix stacks, scene graphs, and more. The article also provides links to additional resources and references, including the WebGPU API Reference, WebGPU Spec, WGSL Spec, and WGSL Function Reference on GitHub. Readers are encouraged to fix, fork, and contribute to the project.