Valentin Shergin

DeFi at @Coinbase. The legacy financial system isn't going to destroy itself. Former @ReactNative scientist at @Facebook.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@_catwu look, can we have this as part of Claude Desktop?

imagine the user just describes what their "home screen" should look like, and… boom... every widget appears, all powered by AI. infinite flexibility, infinite productivity, infinite fun.

or imagine it spinning up casual games, or entirely new input methods.

basically what https://t.co/ODv4HpNrOL does, but inside Claude.

https://t.co/qSJws8Qrrh

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@applegovno Codex CLI is written in Rust, btw.
In both cases, I think, nobody (besides agents) review these changes, so the lack of Rust expertise on the team is not really a problem.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

Rewriting Bun in Rust is a fantastic idea.
Rewriting Claude Code in Rust might be even better: solve the dependency by deleting it.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@applegovno Just for the record: I am dead serious.

Ну, а что? В недавнем интервью Борис Черный сказал что они выбрали Javascript и React только потому что модель могла нормально генерировать только это. Сейчас настало новое время, Claude генерирует достойный Rust.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@janicduplessis @callstackio @CallStack This problem never gets old. 😅

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@tomocchino That's the only thing that's important. And it's also incredibly rare, IMO. Thank you.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@branmcconnell @tanmays Implementing web standards for animations should be a good starting point.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@tmikov joking aside, what’s your take on the idea of rewriting React in C++ and effectively making it somewhat an addon to Hermes?

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@tomocchino I thought it was like 20 years ago!

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@dom_rau @fernandorojo @vercel I am just a mercenary.
What RN needs now is fearless competition, humility, and decisiveness.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@LynAldenContact How about Rivian?

Meanwhile… Now I know what it really means to be all-in in BTC.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@mert I truly love and appreciate you but… you are right - I don’t care.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

Also the synchronous JS DOM API is a dead sentence for performance.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

To achieve that browsers will need to give up a bunch of APIs that inhibit performance optimizations now. And that will never happen.

[jordwalke @jordwalke]

You still can’t create a UI as high fidelity as one of the most basic apps on iOS - Stocks app.

Never seen even a basic app like this be as smooth in a web browser. Note the list reordering. Everything animates as you drag them (tap “Edit Watchlist”).

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

2/3 of CSS should be let go. E.g. if you compare what RN supports and what browsers support, you will have a decent idea.

Fun fact: it is how Flutter started - the Chrome team tried to build a faster renderer with smaller set of supported APIs.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

Happy Thanksgiving, even to the Cardano community! 🦃

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

Maybe it's too late to buy Bitcoin, but it's certainly not too late to join Coinbase. While Coinbase isn't for everyone, if you're bold (or bald, or based) enough, please DM me–we're hiring.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

@Eli_White Thanks to @DelphineBugner. Nice talk! Also bummed that Josh got more screen time than me, even though you called him "this guy".
Also, if it were up to me, I would immediately reject the PR introducing `shouldBeRecycled`. Ofc, I considered that idea initially and dismissed it.

[Valentin Shergin @shergin]

Humble but pretentious. And accurate.
Thanks @Eli_White for sharing.