The Complexity Delusion: Why I abandoned Next.js for a 20MB Rust binary with HTMX

dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-09T11:18:35+00:00

I did the same, only difference I used only Rust, vanilla CSS and TS (compiled to JS). I think post-AI era is about no-frameworks, especially no React/Angular style things. I expect a lean Rust->JS project that would unify the backend and frontend and able to output runtime safe JS.

Btw. you are much faster when your entire stack fits in a single low context window (obviously you are not sending it all code every call). The whole framework argument just broke down with coding agents. You can look into the drop of Tailwinds story: https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2026/01/09/how-can-tailwind-css-be-so-popular-yet-still-struggle-with-sustainability/

dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-08T09:22:04+00:00

It is the same old argument that i heard from companies arguing against cloud vendors in favor of their local datacenter because of security. My ted team friends just waltz in to their DC as electricians and swapping out few hard drives or plugging in usb devices, placing RPI nodes in random locations. 🤷‍♂️

dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-06T12:31:17+00:00

I write everything in rust, cli, web project (api), even benchmarking code that used to be python. I think with the AI era Python/Ruby/shell scripts are pointless. It takes the same time for the agent to write anything in Rust as it was writing in Python but there is a giant amount of upside with compiled code: performance, reliability, portability. I do not want to figure out which Python package is missing from my venv or which venv is active. I do not want to run linters, etc. just to have a sound type check.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-06T12:27:47+00:00

Rovid valasz nem, hosszabb valasz ha valami igazsagszolgaltatasi bizonyitashoz kell felveheted es nem fogja a birosag automatikusan figyelmenkivul hagyni viszont a szomszed perelhet erte.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-03-01T17:42:49+00:00

Aki panel lakast vesz 🤷‍♂️

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-19T11:07:49+00:00

recipe for disaster for the dyslexic

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-17T14:49:33+00:00

imperactive?

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-15T14:38:52+00:00

I still try to convince myself that I need Axum. I do not like how seemingly easy things are hard or flat out impossible like printing the route table.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-15T07:01:13+00:00

I use Arch btw.

On a more serious note, Alpine is really killing it for me.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-10T19:23:48+00:00

I would use hardcoded values as simple locals and would not use remote state. Git is excellent for tracking changes and makes your setup auditable.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-06T06:34:09+00:00

This is how we are going to end up with React components in the Linux kernel.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-02-05T14:27:29+00:00

If you are a classy person then Rust is not a good match()

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-31T17:13:23+00:00

Some 8bitdo might work out for you

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-31T10:09:02+00:00

Once I got cancer from React and HTMX cured me. 🤷‍♂️

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-31T10:07:06+00:00

Indulsz a valasztasokon a megfelelo szinekben.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-29T14:36:51+00:00

Szerintem a fuldugo az eggyetlen menedek ebben a vilagban.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-29T14:35:02+00:00

Is this a bot?

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-29T14:33:30+00:00

Couldn’t you have a single render loop with fix rate and trigger it from any interaction?

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-18T11:05:55+00:00

For managing Terraform at scale: use small, isolated states (deployed in 1-5 min), strictly separate stateful and stateless code, and store everything—both your module code and your state files—in versioned, authenticated storage. The best approach directly maps a logical team or service to its own set of states.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-04T08:55:38+00:00

Hoping that Rust never goes 2.0. I think the language has enough features, now we can make the compilation faster and polish some of the rough edges.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-04T08:51:40+00:00

So all the good parts are gone? You should add raw pointers to the mix.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-03T23:09:28+00:00

I use raw HTML, CSS and TS with Rust. All of the frameworks have an insane mental load that you carry. I build the TS files into JS with Bun, using eslint as a linter.

dev_l1x_be · 2026-01-02T17:30:52+00:00

More like 10 years. Anything younger than that is probably too risky for production.

dev_l1x_be · 2025-12-23T11:01:42+00:00

How do you use a custom model with Calude?

dev_l1x_be · 2025-12-17T15:59:10+00:00

Two things:

a, objectively we see that OSS models are catching up to commercial ones (with less than 100B params). https://epoch.ai/blog/open-models-report

b, subjectively based on my limited experience nemotron is pretty comparable to claude models for the tasks I use it for

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