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by emidoots 3y ago
Ah wasn't expecting this old thing to pop up again. By far the most contentious article I've written; people ranging from "hey if that's you and you're happy then great" to people feeling like it's a perso
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by emidoots 3y ago
LOL classic, it almost looks like an intentional joke. First thing on their homepage: > 21,339 stars and counting First thing on their GitHub README: > Open Source. No artificial limitations, vendor lock-in, or hidden paywalls. Their
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by emidoots 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Go, have been using it since r59 (pre 1.0), professionally working with it the past ~8 years at one of the earliest companies to adopt it. The fact that you cannot have a generic method at all, and instead have to rewr
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by emidoots 4y ago
This project isn't really about calling C functions, Go already supports that after all (CGO). Rust does suffer the same problem, which is that cross-compilation when using C code is a bit of a nightmare. purego solves this by using
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by emidoots 4y ago
I am in love with Zig (as you know), but feel the need to say: please be careful with blanket claims like this. purego is a pretty admirable approach to fixing cgo cross-compilation without Zig (though has its own drawbacks, like no static
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by emidoots 4y ago
It loads the dynamic library at runtime, instead of linking against it, which means it makes cross-compiling with CGO easier as no target C toolchain is needed.
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by emidoots 4y ago
Ahh that's right, I see. Maybe I should play with removing the stack switching from purego so that under condition of a locked OS thread you can avoid that overhead :) I might give that a shot sometime
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by emidoots 4y ago
Makes sense! I also wonder (if you know): last I looked I recall that each CGO call requires switching to the system stack, but I can't recall what happens after. Does it switch back to a regular goroutine stack once the syscall has co
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by emidoots 4y ago
Very cool! I will definitely give this a try, I've been looking to build Go bindings to Mach[0] soon. It looks like this would make cross-compiling CGO easier (no target C toolchain needed?) Does this do anything to reduce the overhead
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by emidoots 4y ago
I've worked alongside the CEO/CTO of Sourcegraph for the past 8 years, everyone else is at our company offsite so I figured I'd chime in :) nobody asked me to write this (nor did I ask) :) The article is a top-notch technical
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by emidoots 4y ago
samdauwe's work is fantastic. We're using WebGPU in Mach engine, and also have quite a large set of examples for how to use WebGPU from Zig[0] that are pretty much standalone (only use our engine for windowing/input), may be
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by emidoots 4y ago
PNG/JPEG are not natively understood by GPUs, though. GPUs have compressed formats they natively understand, and basisu can transcode to them quickly. You'll be burning a lot more GPU texture memory as you'll be asking the GP
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by emidoots 4y ago
I recently tried switching to Linux with a few different distro's (Ubuntu, Elementary OS, etc.) and use Wayland. The thing that sticks out like a sore thumb to me, and which I've been unable to solve, is that apparently it's
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Resolving an unusual WiFi issue(blog.ando.fyi)
594 points by emidoots 4y ago|122 comments
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Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers(buf.build)
221 points by emidoots 4y ago|157 comments
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by emidoots 4y ago
VRChat mods include things like general QOL improvements, but also most accessibility features are mods. Things like preventing flashing colors to avoid seizures. They want to ban them because they compete with VRC+, their premium service.
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by emidoots 4y ago
In case you've ever wanted an opportunity to learn Zig and WebGPU, we have Zig bindings to Dawn (the Chrome implementation) with a fair amount of examples in Zig[0] - also working on getting WebAssembly support going right now. Can be
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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++(github.com)
580 points by emidoots 4y ago|504 comments
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Pure: A static analysis file format checker(github.com)
98 points by emidoots 4y ago|14 comments
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Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively(gist.github.com)
454 points by emidoots 4y ago|335 comments
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Connect: A Better gRPC(buf.build)
308 points by emidoots 4y ago|91 comments
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by emidoots 5y ago
(we chatted in the Matrix room, the TL;DR was there are some bugs here I need to fix and indeed aarch64-linux does not work yet :) https://matrix.to/#/!bIJeTLtOHucXQpqIcH:matrix.org/$FgXuXXmH... )
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by emidoots 5y ago
"So, a clang wrapper?" is a common thought, so here's how Zig differs from clang out of the box: * Links MachO binaries for Apple Silicon via the custom zld linker it ships. LLVM cannot do this currently. * Provides (deduplic
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by emidoots 5y ago
> The transfer was orchestrated by owner Tim Brown, a San Francisco real estate dealer [...] developing the original property into a 48-unit apartment building. TL;DR^
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by emidoots 5y ago
Thanks for the kind thoughts here all - or at least for hearing me out. I will say, I've been judged pretty harshly for this in the past[0] - with many saying it's some sort of signal of a mediocre developer. I wrote this article