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0 pointsconartist62mo ago0 comments

My concern isn't with how you write your network layer. Use buffers in there, of course.

But what if you just want to do a simple decoding transform to get a stream of Unicode code points from a steam of bytes? If your definition of a stream is that it has UInt8 values, that simply isn't possible. And there's still gonna be waaay too many code points to fall back to an async iterator of code points.

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softfalcon2mo ago

I think we're having a completely different conversation now. The parent comment I originally replied has been edited so much that I think the context of what I was referring to is now gone.

Also, I wasn't talking about building network layers, I was explicitly referring to things that use a network layer... That is, an application receiving streams of enumerable network data.

I also agree with what you're saying, we don't want UInt8, we want bits and bytes.

I'm really confused as to why the parent comment was edited so heavily. Oh well, that's social media for you.

whaleofatw20222mo ago

Not the person originally replying, but as someone who avoids JS I have to ask whether the abstraction you provide may have additional baggage as far as framing/etc.

Ironically, naively, I'd expect something more like a callback where you would specify how your input gets written to a buffer, but again im definitely losing a lot of nuance from not doing JS in a long while.

softfalcon2mo ago

> I'd expect something more like a callback where you would specify how your input gets written to a buffer

Yes, and this is the way it works JS currently.

The reason I'm commenting is because it appeared folks were advocating to stop doing this (despite the fact it seems to work just fine).

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softfalcon2mo ago

I think we're having a completely different conversation now. The parent comment I originally replied has been edited so much that I think the context of what I was referring to is now gone.

Also, I wasn't talking about building network layers, I was explicitly referring to things that use a network layer... That is, an application receiving streams of enumerable network data.

I also agree with what you're saying, we don't want UInt8, we want bits and bytes.

I'm really confused as to why the parent comment was edited so heavily. Oh well, that's social media for you.

whaleofatw20222mo ago

Not the person originally replying, but as someone who avoids JS I have to ask whether the abstraction you provide may have additional baggage as far as framing/etc.

softfalcon2mo ago

> I'd expect something more like a callback where you would specify how your input gets written to a buffer

Yes, and this is the way it works JS currently.

The reason I'm commenting is because it appeared folks were advocating to stop doing this (despite the fact it seems to work just fine).

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