While Dorsey noted the layoffs were in part a reaction to overhiring during COVID, they follow AI-driven doomsday anxiety among workers and investors alike: Citrini Research’s “Global Intelligence Crisis” Substack post imagined a scenario in 2028 where unemployment tops 10% and the S&P 500 tanks.
In practice, (and yes, there are always exceptions to be found) BYOB is rarely used to any measurable benefit. The API is substantially more complex than default reads, requiring a separate reader type (ReadableStreamBYOBReader) and other specialized classes (e.g. ReadableStreamBYOBRequest), careful buffer lifecycle management, and understanding of ArrayBuffer detachment semantics. When you pass a buffer to a BYOB read, the buffer becomes detached — transferred to the stream — and you get back a different view over potentially different memory. This transfer-based model is error-prone and confusing:
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After implementing the Web streams spec multiple times across different runtimes and seeing the pain points firsthand, I decided it was time to explore what a better, alternative streaming API could look like if designed from first principles today.
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