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  1. Oct 2023
    1. code leveraging Buffer-specific methods needs polyfilling, preventing many valuable packages from being browser-compatible

      ... so don't rely on it.

      If the methods are helpful then reimplement them (as a library, even) and use that in your code. When passing data to code that you don't control, use the underlying ArrayBuffer instance.

      The very mention of polyfilling here represents a fundamental misapprehension about how to structure a codebase and decide which abstractions to rely on and which ones not to...

      cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_psychosis

  2. Jan 2023
    1. If the differentiator is the ease of putting a new application out into the world, that value prop is competing against the value prop of e.g. today’s full-stack web frameworks, right?