Ygg2

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by Ygg2 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure the issue isn't Rust but the fact outside Browser UI, every native UI sucks. And the biggest culprit is Apple by far, followed by Microsoft, followed by Linux lack of consistency.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Then those countries that didn't will have an advantage at selling their electronics to the world. Or their consumers will enjoy cheap PC part prices. With possible gray zone re-export market. Of course we could see retreat from global
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
A 10 FPS drop in grand strategy is imperceptible, but 10 FPS drop in an fast paced fighting game is controller-toss infuriating.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> No? They caught it! No? Who else has 2-3 years worth of time to become a contributior and maintainer for obscure OSS utils? Plus made sockpuppets to put pressure on OG maintainer to give Jia Tan maintainer privilege. > Exactly. Not
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
What I always hated about defer is that you can simply forget or place it in the wrong position. Destructors or linear types (must-use-once types) are a much better solution.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> A repeat of the xz-utils fiasco Wasn't that a suspected state actor? Against that threat model your best course of action is a prayer and some incense. Notably, xz utils didn't use any package manager ala NPM and it relied on
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Good luck, if little copying is ICU based localization.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
After stunt Amazon pulled off, with its shop, being skeptical is warranted. I know Google and Amazon aren't the same company, but their incentives are.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Great. Give money to maintainers? No. Give money to bury maintainers in AI Slop? Yes.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
So, back to Prolog? :)
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Yeah but ABI stability isn't really just magic dust you sprinkle in you language/compiler and make it more stable It's a straightjacket that has application in few select cases. Things ABI prevents in C++: - better shared_ptr
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Tying yourself in a knot around ABI usually isn't worth it. You pick up to two: performance, ABI stability or adaptability. And you can still internaly have it, if your deps have sources, or compile artifacts for only allow single Rust
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Ok. But if your program assumes green threads and spawn like two million of them on target that doesn't support them, then what? The nice thing about async is that it tells you threads are cheap to spawn. By making everything colourles
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Any backwards compatible language will accumulate hindsight errors. It's practically inevitable.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> Instead of debating for years (like other languages), zig just tries things out. So did Rust pre-1.0 Stability guarantees are a pain in the neck. You can't just break other people's code willy nilly. > This makes zig uniqu
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Sure, but they are deferential and subservient to a T. Their need to conform is greater than anyone's. I mean, having all the knowledge in the world, I'd assume the LLMs could answer basic stuff correctly. They often fail at that
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Ok. But they can't access the OSS repo by being insufferable. Writing a blog post as an AI isn't a great way to sneak your changes in. If anything, it makes it extremely harder. It's a bit like a burglar staging a singing per
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Talking intelligently isn't a high bar. Eliza could talk intelligently. It's necessary but insufficient.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
They didn't. Biggest Rust GUI by popularity is Dioxus.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Ok. But why would someone do this? I hate to sound conspiratorial but an AI company aligned actor makes more sense.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
I've talked to them; they aren't that impressive. Decent search engines (assuming they provide links), though. The part where their context windows get muddied and they switch tones and behave weirdly is pretty telling. I'v
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Extraordinary assumptions (i.e., AI is conscious) require extraordinary proof. If I told you my bag of words was sentient, I assume you'd need more proof than just my word.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> That view of humans - and LLMs - ignores the fact that when you combine large numbers of simple building blocks, you can get completely novel behavior. I can bang smooth rocks to get sharper rocks; that doesn't make sharper rocks
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> I can't imagine why someone would want to openly advertise that they're so closed minded. Because humans often anthropomorphize completely inert things? E.g. a coffee machine or a bomb disposal robot. So far whatever behavior
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
In what way? There was an stdx[1] crate that was basically extra stuff like regex, http client/server, json parsers but there was little desire to maintain it. [1] https://github.com/brson/stdx?tab=readme-ov-file#s
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
Pretty sure those poor multi billion companies also got huge subsidies.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
I'm starting to think Steve Yegge lost it. Or he never had it in the first place.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
> like putting lipstick on a pig. More like building a house in a bottomless swamp. The moment you finish it starts sinking, so you build a new floor, but it just makes it heavier, and speed up the sinking speed.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
You need some fake numbers to really make it believable. > The great irony is that the 69.13% of popular posts on Moltbook are by humans and 67.42% posts on Reddit are by bots.
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by Ygg2 8mo ago
The reverse centaur rides again.

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