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Million Software, Inc.
Company blog · million.dev/blogprogrammingai
Million Software, Inc. is the company blog at million.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Million: Make React 70% Faster”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Million's posts explaining how its virtual DOM makes React faster and how it is built. One commenter values the blog's honest account of the approach's strengths, weaknesses and fit.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Million builds open-source developer tools, datasets, and reinforcement learning environments to help people and frontier coding agents build a better web.
Most-linked posts?
- Million: Make React 70% Faster3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-21
- Million AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-13
- Virtual DOM: Back in Block2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-11
What Hacker News says?
Aiden seems to have hopped on the AI hype train, too. https://million.dev/ai
Comment linking /ai
on “Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React”Submitted Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React as a story · 97 points
HN discussionAn explanation of how they achieve the higher performance: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom And how they implement it: https://million.dev/blog/behind-the-block
Comment linking /blog/behind-the-block
on “Million: Make React 70% Faster”Submitted Million: Make React 70% Faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis looks quite cool for some usecases. I also quite like the honest breakdown of their VDOM approach[0]. It highlights strengths + weaknesses and even gives an example of when it is ( not ) a good fit. This very useful and very much appreciated. [0]: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom
Comment linking /blog/virtual-dom
on “Make React 70% Faster”Submitted Moka v1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>> React is not traditionally used for making games, but that's part of the fun and the challenge. From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437821 : > MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-like and MIT licensed: https://github.com/microsoft/msfs-avionics-mirror/tree/main/... preactjs may or may not be faster: https://preactjs.com/ Million.js is faster than preact, and…
Comment linking /docs
on “React Jam just started, making a game in 13 days with React”Submitted MillionLint – VSCode extension for performance linting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Million AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make React 70% Faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Virtual DOM: Back in Block as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Million.dev as a story · 1 points
HN discussion