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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Looks like Bun is moving towards "production readiness" as a focus, and adding a ton of tooling that ends up being inevitable for creating automation-friendly projects. I'm not sure I want all of what normally are externa
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
The meat of the article: > In my binary field code, I found that an 8-bit precomputation table (in that context, 224 items taking up 128 MB) led to faster computations than a 16-bit precomputation table (232 items taking up 8 GB): while
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
> Thank you for doing God's work. I wish I'd bought a Firefox phone - I would have been burned, but some people need to be for us to get anywhere. I tried to make up for it by buying an early generation FrameWork laptop. Good n
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
> The comments here are awful. What happened to “Hacker” news? It’s funny because excessive negativity is peak HN (see: Dropbox post) but yeah, it’s amazing how many people are focused on how this couldn’t/doesn’t work than got it c
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
This kind of thing is what I come to HN for. This guy did a 6 year multidisciplinary grind to produce a stunning consumer product. Exemplary
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Interesting because the repo only lists a MIT license, with no mention of those requirements. IANAL but those license terms don't seem to be anywhere in the software repository. https://github.com/basecamp/once-cam
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Supabase consistently delivering massive value to the postgres ecosystem
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Dear OP, start a high quality AI code YouTube/Twitch/Substack and you’ll do more “devrel” than they ever could. If it’s really your favorite thing, your content will be world class. If you do this, I’ll be your first paid sub. Get
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
TIL: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
OP should really mention that they made stackerror. I couldn’t shake the feeling that this read like an ad for stackerror… and of course the author is the crate writer. This feels somewhat disingenuous without a disclaimer that you wrote th
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Personal attacks like this have no place on HN.
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
> Contributions to the Zig language or contributions to software using Zig (the latter is the one the post is about as I understand)? Yes. I think a contributor that really wanted to help the ecosystem would start in the stdlib and then
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
On the one hand, I totally get that pre 1.0 is the wild west (somewhat) and should be. The team is right in jealously guarding their ability to make changes. That said, others have pointed out that writing documentation and tests helps impr
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
This is a good point, but one could make a point for the usefulness of documentation in “thinking like a user” which is a valuable exercise. I do very much prefer moving fast though, so I get it, docs-later is obviously a very valid way of
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Yeah, thinking about this attitude positively, maybe it’s a feature — if only hard core people can comfortably figure it out, you get higher quality contributions? Not trying to imply that’s an explicit goal (probably instead just a resourc
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
I'm not a Zig PM but the first obvious fix for the issues the OP wrote about is to write better documentation, including usage examples (the more the better, almost to a fault). Also doubles as a good time to reflect on whether the use
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Yeah sounds like those SaaSes have a broken funnel/aren't doing a good job, because customers are still annoyed. Being second to market doesn't mean you can't be best! > If anything, someone should just make an AI tha
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Sounds like a SaaS offering waiting to be built
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Thanks! Yeah CPP reference is what I tend to find on the internet, but quite surprised there isn't something a bit more "modern" that combines all these. Searching also revealed some good university guides, the standards, ETC
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Where does everyone browse the C standard library, posix library, and separately glibc? Is there any really nice listing/walk through these standard libraries/rustdoc like website? Does everyone just dig through header files and m
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
I did click that -- it didn't have it listed either... I think I wasn't clear, I wanted to know which database system people were using (i.e. Postgres, Mongo, etc). You can't even run Postgres in a container without a pas
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Why is the database not named?
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
> I'd argue this is also down to the debug memory allocators in Zig which run a bunch of checks for things like use-after-free. Again, one of the nice things about Zig is that debug mode isn't dramatically slower than release s
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Agreed, I really like Zig's explicit allocation (and to be fair, lots of people from Rust like it too[0], it's just such an insane lift that who knows when it will stabilize) The new "managed" async strategy (I was previ
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
> All of that said, there are patterns that will just be harder to reason about in Rust, mostly with self-referential things, and if you area already used to using them a lot, this can be a hassle. If you're used to smaller data str
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
1) Yeah, not everyone is mitchellh -- I'd argue that his intuition was right (expecting to find more issues), there's a reason we don't all write C. That said, it's great to hear that others are having success with Zig a
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
Other WAY more qualified people already responded and elucidated on the initial origins of Rust (it used to have a garbage collector!), but I can at least add this: The definition of "same niche" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. T
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
I really feel for new languages that have to compete with Rust. It’s probably easier than it’s ever been to create a high quality new language but to get as good as Rust has become just takes so much time and collective effort that it can b
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
See: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon
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by hardwaresofton 1y ago
The future continues to be AGPL: https://vadosware.io/post/the-future-of-free-and-open-source...

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