> but you'd be fighting against it, rather than being helped by it

I think this was also true of doing game development in Flash. Some people here might be looking back at Flash with rose-tinted nostalgia glasses.

I think Rive[0] is quite competitive with what was possible back then in covering the full authoring stack.

[0]: https://rive.app

You can nowadays do fine with macOS or Linux in most college degrees I've seen, since nowadays there are decent open source alternatives for the most prolific software that's on the level of popularity that it will be used in teaching.

However by default almost every college curriculum I've seen (unless it's in CS or IT combined field like bioinformatics) is still taught Windows-first, be it sociology, biochemistry or economics. In many you also have strong presence of MS Office suite, which is probably the first software that any university will buy license packs for for their students.

To me the price seems to be so uncharactaristically low for Apple during a time where hardware prices are rising across the board that this almost feels like an attempt to try and capture the desktop market. During a time where Microsoft is fumbling with Windows on every front, having a competitively priced Macbook even for budget-concious people seems like a smart move that will pay off even without direct high margins.

Capture the student market 100%. I’d buy one for my kids tomorrow. These machines are made with an iPhone chip so they’re going to be great at browsing the web and studying. I wouldn’t buy one for myself To do actual work on but for light users it’s the perfect device. Start them early and get them hooked in the ecosystem so they’re grow up and keep buying iPhones, Apple Watches, AirPods, and iPads.

You have to compare with the base iPad, which costs only about half of the Neo. The Neo adds a keyboard (but without Touch ID for the base model), a larger screen but without touch, a somewhat better but also binned SoC (which the next iPad refresh will very likely also get) and more storage. It seems roughly in line, relative to the price difference.

Interestingly it's cheaper than the iPad with the $250 magic keyboard.

It's more expensive if you want Touch ID, and on par ($350 + $250) if you don't. However, the $250 Magic Keyboard is heavily overpriced, the actual keyboard can't be more than $10-20.

I'm pretty sure that's just LLMs tendency to replicate bad React patterns.

Do they? AFAIK the main thing that was standardized on was Metamask and the few RPC functionality that came with that, but I also haven't kept up with the space in some tme.

Yeah, I mean things like roll-ups for smart contracts that could do be used for cheap authentication. Zk-proofs for permission less access only for humans, etc.

Anything that's "double use" is already treated with a distinct level of scrutiny.

Maybe for the first 2-3 years. The association to Meta is barely mentioned (even on the official page) nowadays.

My impression is react is almost thought of more as a Vercel project these days

Which one? None of those that came up when I searched were really containing a lot of real uses. Both top threads[0][1] don't really contain much of substance.

[0]: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=46838946 [1]: https://hackernews.hn/item?id=47147183

When has "enterprise edition" ever been the sign of parody projects?

I remember at least this one: https://github.com/Hello-World-EE/Java-Hello-World-Enterpris...

Since I've dealt with "EE" Java in a previous life, that's actually pretty tame as far as parodies go.

I hate the fact I can say that. :-/

I'd assume it's riffing on Java EE.