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For truth checking actual thinking and logic is required. It doesn't seem to be a proper tool for the task.


True, and it doesn't do logic. It decomposes content into claims and search for every claim citations. It catches a false premise, not a bad inference. Someone with valid reasoning from true facts to a wrong conclusion goes straight through.


Billionaires are infinitely smaller than money printers (and they are created by them). Did you got the scale?


"The study did not take into account other potential influencing factors"


But when I install Firefox or Chrome it's much faster, much better and also someone else's code. Also copied and pasted by machine. Just I don't claim it's mine.


Hundreds year old technology used in houses, hospitals and public places - handles made of bronze.



Well said.


Look for Imba (imba.io) which is being ignored for years. Predecessor of React with features of React and no flaws of React. Works great with just devtools - for debugging.


It's great. I wish they released a JS/TS version though.

A custom language that basically depends on a single guy is a hard sell.


Yes it's TS and types compatible. What about Rails or Redis or Linux? The most brilliant projects I know come from one person. Everything is hard to sell if you don't have corporate money stream for marketing :) No?


> What about Rails or Redis or Linux?

Linux and Redis have funding and millions of users. So much depends on these projects. Rails is less popular these days but still a project with a long history, financial backing, and a huge ecosystem.

Imba has some brilliant ideas and Sindre is extremely smart... but IMO the decision to go with a custom language has hurt the project more than it has helped. It won't work with any of the tooling around JS/TS. Development is also extremely slow. More than 4 years after announcing v2 here on HN[1], it still hasn't been released.

The reality is that almost nobody is using Imba and it currently sits at about 2000 weekly downloads on NPM with no growth. Even Mithril which is also super niche has more downloads than Imba [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28196158

[2] https://npmtrends.com/imba-vs-mithril


It's funny to say that because we're living in a bubble too.


Article's author doesn't believe his awareness is on the fringe :))


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