Engineering
4 items tagged Engineering.
Articles
Cross-Platform Was a Labor-Saving Device. Shopify Just Stopped Needing One.
Shopify spent six years as React Native's loudest enterprise champion. It is now rebuilding every mobile app in Swift and Kotlin, and the stated reason is not performance. It is that writing the feature twice stopped costing twice.
Point an LLM at Working Code and It Will Find a Bug. There Is Not One.
Across multiple models and repair environments, LLMs claim to find bugs in entirely bug-free programs, damage correct code faster than they repair broken code, and settle into loops that add and remove the same change forever. Then the researchers found the knob that causes it.
110 Million Installs a Week. The Funding Model Still Did Not Work.
Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify. The CSS framework stays MIT, but the paid products that funded it are closing to new customers. The last well-known example of fund-the-commons-by-selling-something-next-to-it just resolved into an acquisition, which means every option has now been tried.
Rust Is Now Tier-1 at Microsoft. The Interesting Part Is the Backend.
Rust joins C++, C# and TypeScript as a tier-1 language at Microsoft. The announcement contains no memory-safety statistics at all, which is a surprise, and the actual technical news is a Rust frontend bolted onto the MSVC backend with 100+ internal repos already building on it.