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by hgs3 3y ago
I agree. I wish the Free Software crowd had adopted it - they sorta did with GNUstep - but unfortunately it doesn't receive the attention it deserves. Anecdotally I've noticed many C and C++ GUI frameworks, like Gtk and Qt, reinve
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Yes, because it's easier to mix Objective-C with C and C++ code. Personally I'd lean towards Objective-C regardless because it's a simple and stable language.
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> it's becoming pretty obvious that it's a technological dead end for anyone but niche gamers. Even if that's the case, it's OK to have a niche product. Gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry so the market is worth
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> Cairo is in a maintenance-only mode. That's too bad. Is their a successor planned or is Skia the recommended alternative?
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Code that's full of memory bugs is likely full of other bugs too. Improving testing methodology, perhaps establishing official guidelines, would address ownership issues and more. The goal should be to write robust software, because ro
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You don't need a borrow checker to write reliable programs. If anything the Rust obsession with memory safety has been harmful since it detracts from general safety. But don't take my word for it, maybe consider what the co-author
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> I think it's a common misconception that ownership is there to make you suffer compiler shenanigans. I don't think it's a misconception. When I tried Rust I tried to implement a cyclic data structure but couldn't be
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I was always a little surprised C never had an integer type the size of a native word. Probably the closest thing would be intptr_t since pointers presumably use a single word to represent addressable memory.
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I'm more surprised it wasn't in the top 10 already.
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It doesn't need to. Memory issues are easy to catch with good tests and Rust approach to memory safety has its own trade-offs.
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Why don't you build something you want to use? Chances are if you need it other people do too. If you can't think of anything, then ask other people what problems they have and consider how you could solve them with software.
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Just a thought I had, but if democracy is good, then why are publicly traded companies ran like oligarchies and private companies ran like dictatorships? Shouldn't cooperatives be the default? If the argument is cooperatives don't
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I'd say the original already isn't ambiguous: Kenobi directly tells Luke that Vader murdered his Father. The "from a certain point of view" scene had to be added in ROTJ to explain away the retcon.
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> You still need access to native menus, clipboard, dialogs, drag&drop, etc. You don't need a library for these features. Their easy to access through each platforms native API's and if you go the route of creating the webv
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With the native web control approach you can write the bulk of your app in whatever efficient programming language / tech stack you want (Rust, C, C++, Go, whatever). The webview need only be for presentation - the 'V' in MVC
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You can create the web control using each platforms native GUI toolkit and setup JS communication yourself OR you can use a lightweight library that does it for you [1] (search this projects README for language "bindings"). [1] h
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> A typical app today is built on Electron JS Not enough folks seem to realize but you can use each platforms native web control rather than bundling electron. If you do that your distributed app can be in the kilobytes. This approach al
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> evidently a bit broken And here I thought the author was making a fragmentation joke.
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> ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 are both ways of representing a date as a string. Which has little to do with Date as a type. Tell that to the TOML authors [1]. It's good Pkl has string validation, but what if I don't want a string? Wh
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> Guess the obvious question is why don’t you want types in your config language? The disadvantage of typed configuration languages is they make assumptions about the format of the data. For you a "date" type might mean ISO 8
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> C# doesn't have ownership/lifetimes and the kind of safety that comes with them. Could you elaborate? C# has a garbage collector for tracking resources.
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They say it takes 10,000 hours because you need time to explore, fail and learn from failures. Your best bet is a mentor coupled with total immersion in the area of interest. Keep in mind a great mentor can only shorten the time by a few th
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by hgs3 3y ago
I'm tired of sloppy testing. This issue was discoverable via a fuzzer as noted in the bug report. Software that accepts external inputs needs to be fuzzed regardless of whether it is written in a memory safe language or not. Uncaught e
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by hgs3 3y ago
It looks like their shuffling not walking.
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> Linux desktop environments are too much like Windows and not innovating. If we're talking the files+folders paradigm, then there's not much innovation remaining outside of cosmetic changes. Desktop computers are "done&qu
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> What's the incentive? More sales and trust. Vendors who open source are offering their customers the right to repair and self-host their products should they go belly up. That itself is a selling point.
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For me the big problem with most C competitors is they go overboard. The only alternative I've tried that sparked my fancy was D with -betterC flag. It's unfortunate that it's not its own language, but rather a "profile&
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by hgs3 3y ago
Hi Martin, thank you for writing this proposal. This is just my two cents, but one-off void* functions, like qsort, are less of a pain point relative to generic containers. With generic containers it's common to have a collection of vo
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Wow. I see this as proof web surfing died because the Big Search Engines prefer to promote commercial entities over individual interests.
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> Computer games of the era... I don't think lightmapping went away. I still see it even in AAA titles today. Performance-wise, for a static scene, baked lighting is tough to beat.

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