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by estebank 10mo ago
When it comes to nightly features use, it is good to note that a stable compiler, a nightly corresponding to the date beta for that stable was branched out and an arbitrary nightly are different . A branched-off nightly might have had beta
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by estebank 10mo ago
The only thing I could ever see misconstrued of as "hostility" with my earshot from anyone in t-compiler is myself saying something along the lines of "that sounds like a lot of effort that doesn't gain much over rustc
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by estebank 10mo ago
LLVM platform support is neither sufficient (rustc needs to be taught about the platform) not technically necessary (you could write a rustc backend that targets a platform that LLVM doesn't, like modifying cranelift or once the gcc ba
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by estebank 10mo ago
Not only that, those individuals were already Linux kernel contributors. This is not an amorphous external group forcing their will on Linux, it's Linux itself choosing to use Rust.
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by estebank 10mo ago
> What is then extra strange is that there have been some public hostility against gccrs (WIP Rust compiler for gcc) from the rustc (sole main Rust compiler primarily based on LLVM) camp. Could you point at a single quote from a member o
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by estebank 10mo ago
And when they were mandated, it made a lot of people very angry! https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3649589
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by estebank 10mo ago
According to https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ , 12%. I would love an updated version of https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1flUGg6Ut4bjtyWdyH_9e... (which stops in 2020). For Chro
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by estebank 10mo ago
If all Rust accomplishes is ushering some other better project, it would have been worth it. I think it would take a while for that to happen, purely due to momentum' the same thing that makes some people think that Rust isn't bei
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by estebank 10mo ago
> For almost everything a managed runtime like Go or Java or .NET is going to be just as effectively deployed, significantly cheaper to develop That might be true. I personally still prefer to use a language with sum-types and exhausti
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by estebank 10mo ago
As someone with a race in my head between white hairs and a receding hairline, hair loss does afflict millions of people, but it has no medical impact on people's life, beyond increasing the need to wear a hat when outside in the Sun f
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by estebank 10mo ago
Discussing the messenger instead of the message is a common strategy to derail conversations away from the message.
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by estebank 10mo ago
Applications have had easter eggs for ages. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
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by estebank 11mo ago
Isn't that https://uutils.github.io/ ?
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by estebank 11mo ago
Where in the stack should it be enforced that my cute desktop clock doesn't pull a Copilot and takes a screenshot of the entire desktop every 15 seconds to send to a remote service?
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by estebank 11mo ago
I suspect rustfmt would consider this out of scope, but there should be a more... "adventurous" code formatter that does more opinionated changes. On the other hand, you could write a clippy lint today and rely on rustfix instead
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by estebank 11mo ago
> readable No, because some things that are UB in C are not in Rust, and vice versa, so any codegen has to account for that and will result in additional verbosity that you wouldn't see in "native" code.
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by estebank 11mo ago
You can see epage's replies to my copy of this comment for an idea of the open questions: https://hachyderm.io/@ekuber/115605792856416650 You can look at what is currently effectively staffed at https:/&#x2F
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by estebank 11mo ago
Do you remember the scene in Goodfellas where the neighborhood's head mobster would only communicate in person with his people?
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by estebank 11mo ago
I'm currently abroad with a notification for "November Pixel Drop update available" that appeared the day following my arrival. I believe I had already installed the November update back home earlier in the month. Every time
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by estebank 11mo ago
I guess they are advocating for exhaustive branch testing.
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by estebank 11mo ago
Stock android. Traveling between US, Europe, LATAM and China.
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by estebank 11mo ago
Every time I travel internationally I immediately get notifications for Android OS updates. I'm pretty sure they are for satisfying local regulations about the phone's behavior, including the topic at hand.
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by estebank 11mo ago
The person you're replying to is the author of the blog post, which I would not accuse of being a Rust proponent.
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by estebank 11mo ago
There are at least three separate things that rustc and cargo could do to significantly improve compilation speed, but they are complex engineering efforts that require time and engineers being paid to work on full-time. They are: doing wha
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by estebank 11mo ago
When it comes to distributed services, unwrap is likely the behavior you do want, because the service is being run by a scheduler that detects failures, and a panic would be tied to a metric and page an sre. My read of the situation is that
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by estebank 11mo ago
This is the constitutional equivalent of being a flat earther.
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by estebank 11mo ago
To anyone who happens to be born on its soil, it actually is. And leaving people on bureaucratic limbo for decades is abusive.
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by estebank 11mo ago
I knew I'd seen something along those lines: https://nitter.net/turbolent/status/1617231570573873152
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by estebank 11mo ago
I'm really not looking forward to another week long round of Rust discourse from people rubbernecking on the proposal. To get the first few points I expect to be raised on every thread that links to the proposal: - it is a proposal by
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by estebank 11mo ago
"CPython has historically encountered numerous bugs and crashes due to invalid memory accesses. We believe that introducing Rust into CPython would reduce the number of such issues by disallowing invalid memory accesses by construction

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