Comment by w10-1

7 days ago

HN should have a conference-findings thread for something like WWDC, with priority impact rankings

P4: Foundation models will get newbies involved, but aren't ready to displace other model providers.

P4: New containers are ergonomic when sub-second init is required, but otw no virtualization news.

P2: Concurrency now visible in instruments and debuggable, high-performance tracing avoid sampling errors; are we finally done with our 4+ years of black-box guesswork? (Not to mention concurrency backtracking to main-thread-by-default as a solution.)

P5: UI Look-and-feel changes across all platforms conceal the fact that there are very few new API's.

Low content overall: Scan the platforms, and you see only L&F, app intents, widgets. Is that really all? (thus far?) - It's quite concerning.

Also low quality: online links point no where, half-baked technologies are filling presentation slots: Swift+Java interop is no where near usable, other topics just point to API documentation, "code-along" sessions restating other sessions.

Beware the new upgrade forcing function: adding to the memory requirements of AI, the new concurrency tracing seems to require M4+ level device support.