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by fiedzia 9y ago
Incidentally I was troubleshooting a new designer machine that uses our dockerised Linux app. On Windows. The problem was that git converted all newlines to Windows format, breaking... absolutely everything. For the first time I've see
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> You've been able to run F# on Mono for ages But you wouldn't want to, because for a very long time Mono was horribly buggy, and no library or application cared for supporting it. It may be better now in terms of .Net itself,
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Because you can then search for it.
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This might be true, but some communities are more attractive than others. There is a big difference for example between communities created around things that require an effort to reach for and those that people use because it is their job,
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I wouldn't say so. This screams "I am an idiot", missing handling can easily pass unnoticed.
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It fails at other things too.
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For storing json? There are some, though for that purpose Mongo provides great combination of features and usability, where using relational database for that feels like fitting square peg in round hole, and usability of sql for processing
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> I'm curious what workloads wasm can improve Those where you have a significant amount of computation. Image/audio/video processing, neural networks, text analysis, games fall there too. Generally, those things are not do
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> Were they entirely to blame? Of course not. If they've made a mistake, someone designed the system that allows this mistake to be made, and to have such consequences. Blaming a person is an enormous lack of ethics and responsibili
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That you are not the only one who wants to use them.
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Machine learning and programming education in general.
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>Would the equivalent amount of DDR5 actually feel any different to DDR4 to the end user? Most likely not at all. Browser speed has more to do with network speed and browser/website design than your hardware. Browsers and websites s
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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Wayland, Wifi support - DESCRIPTION: numerous wifi dongles still don't work or require unnecessary work
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> Why? You don't have expertise needed to do that yourself? You are taking code criticism to personally. Keep it professional. > point me to this software that was rewritten from unsafe C code and was replaced with memory safe la
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> you can have the same problem in type-safe language Yes, you can. But at least you have a better option and better chance of other people using it, so statistically you'll have less errors. > do not use builtin operators in C
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> Let 100 programmers write these programs in your type-safe language of choice and all will be vulnerable to this. Some will be, some will define inteface as float_meters and define automatic conversion from yards, avoiding whole issue.
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> It's really easy to criticize. Yes, that's the point of this discussion. We are not criticising some code for having one bug a decade that requires 24 steps to reproduce, we are criticising code for having numerous bugs that
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> If you believe that you can rewrite any of those libraries or tools in a nice modern language with no security issues and all the portability that they had (including operating systems and embedded systems), please do grace us with you
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> No amount of 'type safety' will prevent idiots from being idiots But it will limit the damage they do considerably. Having bit of space or trees between lanes on a road saves a lot of lives, even if people drive as idioticall
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Yes, but nothing will stop you from casting pointer to meters into pointer to yards, while many C features force or encourage this behaviour. You also cannot override operators for combining those units. And the value is still just int.
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It could be prevented if you could express units in the type system. Declare numeric_value_in_meters and numeric_value_in_yards as types and problem solved. Sure, it still possible that someone would not do that, but having this option is s
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And is there any reason why Rust couldn't be as portable as the C code that makes up curl? In theory no, in practice yes. Rust is using LLVM project to generate machine code, and that only supports certain architectures. There are howe
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This only listed some 4 i386 packages I had installed.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/1yv1i2/ha...
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> Security in the library used to print colours to your terminal is a bit less important. Printing colors still may provide an attack vector. Latest CVE in Ubuntu comes from a program that eject CD's (and needs root privileges to do
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And I do. Planes crashed and people died because of buggy software. We have lost Mars climate orbiter due to not using type-safe language. In the cases of software that works fine, we are just relying on ridiculous amount of manual verific
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Well said.
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Note: I am discussing using safe languages in general and reasoning for doing or not doing that. If you believe rewrite requests are unreasonable no matter what, don't bother reading that. Or perhaps consider this to be addressed to pe
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Most likely I/O will take more time than whatever code is running, so in that aspect it would make no difference. Memory overhead is main concern here. Rust doesn't use GC, so you'll have full control and there should be not
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> I can't really imagine a seasoned C developer introducing completely new bugs in a code base they are already very familiar with Get a CVE list for some Linux distribution, this will open your mind. Happens all the time.

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