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by blub 4y ago
Murdered by Microsoft, like many products and companies which dared challenge them. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/use-cnet-sho... One of the employees they lured away was Anders Hejlsberg, former
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by blub 4y ago
“Far superior... at making basic 90s UIs that nobody else wants today. For better or worse, but the reality is nobody wants them anymore. Branding is a thing. When a client wanted something different you used to tell them "You can&#x2
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by blub 4y ago
Most of your types? Well that certainly deserves congratulations and I hope someone will take advantage of the opportunity. I think you misunderstood me though if you say I haven’t used them properly. I just didn’t need them or find them th
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by blub 4y ago
How is it nonsense if you admit at the end (albeit after a straw-man of me allegedly screaming “abuse”) that it happens? Result is being sold on HN as a great solution to error handling while there’s several crates available which are neede
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by blub 4y ago
Rust’s memory management is not hard, it’s just tedious. If programming in the future will mean annotating the crap out of everything then garbage-collected languages start to become attractive - see golang competing with Rust in unexpected
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by blub 4y ago
Rust programmers misuse unwrap and the like all the time, to the point that I’ve seen some projects explicitly state that they don’t do that, since nobody wants their library to crash their program because someone was too lazy to propagate
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by blub 4y ago
I think many people - me included - are complaining that it makes things hard period. Not in the sense of “rocket science” as this argument is sometimes smugly dismissed, but in the sense of extra friction which slows things down and decrea
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by blub 4y ago
When using GCC for example, there’s a macro one can define which adds bounds checking to all containers. Integer overflow can be turned into defined behavior through a compiler switch. Holding pointers to stack variables past the return is
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by blub 4y ago
Variant types where one has to use objects as types don’t come up that often in API design or data structures in my experience with mobile and system programming on e.g. Linux. I think I’ve genuinely had to use them only a few times. Error
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by blub 4y ago
I’ve noticed that the tone is becoming rougher with each new Rust story. I’d be curious to know what kind of professional would choose to express themselves in this way, it’s pretty embarrassing. First of all, that blog post - as many Rust-
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by blub 4y ago
Look and you shall find. Third comment from the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34741241 That jumble of ideas is a good example of the arrogance directed not only at C++ programmers, but also Golang and C.
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by blub 4y ago
As another commenter said: lifetime identifiers and functional constructs. To which I’ll add reference overuse. The C++ programmers that love over-complicated, read-only code would be right at home in Rust. In fact they’re probably working
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by blub 4y ago
Please do yourself a favor and don’t waste 5m of your life reading this article like I did. It’s about a team of allegedly experienced C++ developers at a start-up that spent seven months building a project only to spend another two months
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by blub 4y ago
Given that we were discussing reasons for: * Russia breaking gas delivery contracts with several EU countries and you’ve replied with: * a non sequitur enumerating a series of bellicose actions Russia took in relation to non-EU countries sp
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by blub 4y ago
I’ve been on HN for 10+ years and articles are certainly flagged when they don’t match the zeitgeist. Anything discussing controversial social topics is nuked. Which would explain the sheer panic and replies to dang: it must be truly terrib
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by blub 4y ago
The Western press seems to more or less parrot the government talking points or are even more hawkish themselves. Criticism is offered on minor topics or is feeble and drowned in a torrent of other articles. One could recognize this also wi
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by blub 4y ago
It seems like it is, but this agreement is typically presented for two reasons: * as a way to show that a country should never give up its nukes. But they were forced and incentivized to give them up. * as a way of showing Russia won’t hono
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by blub 4y ago
It’s not a debate, seems more like a fringe theory trying to muddy the waters by making Russian imperialism look like colonialism, because the latter probably sounds worse to the modern average citizen. If you look at e.g. https:/&#x2
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by blub 4y ago
The EU politicians may have expected to declare an unprecedented economic war on Russia while the latter dutifully continued to fulfill its gas contracts to the EU. Seems plausible given the geopolitical mastery the EU posesses. But does an
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by blub 4y ago
Did the US ever present any proof of Russia manipulating elections or co-opting any politicians? After Trump was cleared, I’ve started thinking that the US is just going through another Red Scare.
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by blub 4y ago
Then please post direct quotes by Chomsky and prove it for everyone. The guy always gets defamed and everyone likes to put words into his mouth.
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by blub 4y ago
Can you point to at least one historical analysis which identifies Russia as a colonial empire? Seeing people draw this parallel was surprising to me, as I associate colonialism with the European conquerors of the world: Portugal, Spain, Fr
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by blub 4y ago
Nukes are an irrelevant issue that keeps getting brought up. Ukraine were pressured by Russia and the US and were offered incentives to hand the nuclear weapons to Russia. Furthermore the US even had to help Russia itself with the dismantl
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by blub 4y ago
That may seem wrong only because you’re thinking about things very literally. In reality it would blocking a known monopolist with a track record of bad behavior from monopolizing another market and allowing everyone else including Firefox
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by blub 4y ago
Is this a one person operation you’re describing or a commercial project developed by a team which is bringing in revenue? How long has it been in production and how long will it be developed and supported? My concern regarding web Rust is
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by blub 4y ago
Chrome is spyware under a different name and they won the desktop market by sabotaging Firefox and taking advantage of their search monopoly by blatantly advertising their browser. Most developers focus on the technical features and miss wh
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by blub 4y ago
If you look at the Rust community, it’s split between those that consider Rust appropriate for systems level programming and those that want to use Rust for everything. The back-end Rust comes from the latter part of the community and my i
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by blub 4y ago
Or directly from the source: https://github.com/RustMagazine/rustmagazine/blob/main/conte...
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by blub 4y ago
It’s not, it’s in the same complexity class as C++, except many more errors happen at compile time.
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by blub 4y ago
Fraud is the least of Netherland’s problems: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/03/mob-style-kill... “While Dutch criminal gangs have been dubbed the “Mocro [Moroccan] Maffia” and ethnic minoriti

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