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by _eojb 2y ago
This is a very brave post to write given how incendiary responses to rust criticism can be, but this matches my experience entirely.
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by _eojb 3y ago
None of these limitations have anything to do with an imgui frontend api though.
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by _eojb 3y ago
I don't know what line of work you're in, but I use a desktop orders of magnitude faster than my first computer also, and image processing, compilation, rendering, and plenty of other tasks aren't suddenly thousands of times
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by _eojb 3y ago
It's just as "amazing" to read these takes from techno purists. You use software written in C++ daily, and it can be a pragmatic choice regardless of your sensibilities.
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by _eojb 3y ago
Used by sqlite, babel, others, and millions of downloads not good enough for you?
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Hacker News reacts to JSON5 (2012)(news.ycombinator.com)
41 points by _eojb 3y ago|29 comments
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by _eojb 3y ago
Ligatures, IMO, make for a bad coding editor experience. No, I do not want >> parsed as a right shift when it's actually used as two adjacent template delimiters. And no, I'm not okay with the inconsistency that results from
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by _eojb 3y ago
Well, `std::regex` is literally orders of magnitude slower than other common regex libraries found in JS, Python, Perl, C, etc. It allocates a ton, is poorly implemented, and can never be fixed due to ABI constraints. The entire <regex&g
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by _eojb 3y ago
Contrasting opinion, it's a terrible strategy. Limiting the entire ecoystem of devs on your platform to features that have not only shipped but stabilized over 5 years prior on other platforms is nonsensical. Compare to MSFT, which is
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by _eojb 4y ago
Speaking as a graphics engineer, Metal is THE most painful API to support bar none (including all the console vendors) because they just had to roll their own shader language as opposed to extending an existing one. The development cycle