john smith

@solrevdev

C# and .NET developer in the UK. Microsoft certified, ex Head of Infrastructure. I build small .NET tools and write about AI-assisted coding.

Oxfordshire

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john smith
@solrevdev
10h
Beautiful. Some C# and .NET is super performant good news again. 🙏🏼️
Ibro
@axeng200
Sep 28
C# FTW again github.com/devmobasa/ttfx Against Python up to 140x faster! Against Rust from 0.3.3 version that DHH referenced here up to 2.12x Since you don't like Rust, you can just port it to a much prettier language like C#, and no need to sacrifice performance. C# on Linux
john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 23
C# and .NET being speedy and scaleable
Ben {chmark} Adams ⟠
@ben_a_adams
Sep 22
C#/.NET being pushed hard running infrastructure at Ethereum's scale. Nethermind runs on ~3k nodes and accounts for ~33% of staked nodes - supporting a ~$334B native asset, ~$146B of stablecoins and ~$54B deposited in DeFi apps. Nethermind 2.0 has some amazing performance work
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Nethermind
@Nethermind
Sep 22
Nethermind Client 2.0.0 is out. It changes how the node stores Ethereum's state: archive nodes drop from ~30 TB to ~2 TB, you choose the history you keep, and blocks process 2–3× faster than the previous release on a fresh node. Nine years since the first commit. The fastest
john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 23
Microsoft should dogfood C# and .NET a lot more than they do.
Dan Patrascu-Baba
@danpdc
Sep 22
Microsoft recently ported the GitHub Copilot runtime from TypeScript to Rust in roughly 4 months. The entire port was mostly guided by one single engineer and generated a token cost of around $120k. Here are few of my thoughts through my CTO lens. 1. Why Rust and not C#? With
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john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 4
Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra and Daybreak Blue 🙏🏼️
john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 4
Checking to see if I have GPT-6 Astra yet. Has anyone got access in the UK? (Ignoring those who had pre-announcement access.)
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