kaba0

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1. 601.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   Failing to protect and targeting is widely different, and it is not in good faith to claim the latter without evidence.
2. 602.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   So you don’t think there is a difference between a huge front across a country, and a tiny blob of very densely packed land, with a huge population density? Just something as simple as the chance of a bomb exploding near you is significantl
3. 603.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   Could you list all the features you are thinking of?
4. 604.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   That’s also true of a GCd language though.
5. 605.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   Besides preventing data races (but not other kinds of race conditions), it is not at all unique. Haskell, OCaml, Scala, F# all have similarly strong type systems.
6. 606.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   Scala is an absolutely small language. It is just very expressive, but its complexity is quite different than, say, Cpp’s, which has many features.
7. 607.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   You are generally right, but Clojure is a bad example, it is quite deliberately a “hosted” language, that can and does have many implementations for different platforms, e.g. ClojureScript.
8. 608.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   You wrote: > in C the program is more liable to simply crash I simply disagree with this statement, as silent failure is also very common in case of C, which is probably the worst option. (Especially that it may cause memory safety issue
9. 609.▲
   by kaba0 3y ago

   So it is worse, therefore it is better? Exceptions are exceptionally good at error handling - they always do the correct default (bubbling up if not handled, bringing a stacktrace with them, and by default they auto-unwrap the correct retu
10. 610.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    But then why not use Scala, OCaml, Haskell, etc? Rust is only interesting and novel that it can target the very niche area where GCs are not generally allowed.
11. 611.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    So you are comparing a feature-packed enterprise framework with a raw http server ping-ponging hello world? Also, what even does the last line mean? Go in general is significantly more verbose than Java.
12. 612.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Java’s GC is just incomparably better, literally every research on the topic is written for Java. Though that’s true that without value types, Java does rely slightly more on it.
13. 613.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    > beating C++ Source for that?
14. 614.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Is that the same hardware? Otherwise it doesn’t say much.
15. 615.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    You can’t generally make it a strictly compile-time feature, as far as I know. You do need what constitutes to overflow checks, basically.
16. 616.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    So you need a separate CSS engine for each browser? Count me out.
17. 617.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    I can only talk about Gnome wayland with NixOS, but they generally don’t do anything too wild with the configs, and since they have quite bleeding edge packages, it usually works quite well, once it packaged.
18. 618.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    That’s like, your opinion. I do think that on a laptop, GNOME is probably the best environment to use, out of any OS.
19. 619.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Well, the applications are not the same as the desktop environment. You can install Konsole, Dolphin, etc on gnome as well.
20. 620.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    The only good package manager can do it: Nix :D
21. 621.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Well, that’s true. Though then it is pretty similar to the “build tool” problem, which is actually an interesting parallel :D Nonetheless, I do think that big limitations at most places, with optional, explicit escape hatches is a good patt
22. 622.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    I mean, that’s how it works in Java as well (other threads keep running), but you are not much helped if your “critical business logic” deadlocked and doesn’t do its job. Though I guess you can try restarting it with Erlang.
23. 623.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    I don’t think deadlock free is possible without some very serious limitations. Like not even share-nothing, communicate via messages only is safe from deadlocks.
24. 624.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Just for note, C# also does 3 slashes, so there is prior art.
25. 625.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    > It's perfectly possible to have a CSS system that is completely maintainable. It takes skill Yeah, and people wrote complex games in assembly. The difference is maintainability and if it can be done by more than one people. CSS
26. 626.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    It’s the C tradition, continued.
27. 627.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    > give references for my assertions Like linking to your own text at another place? https://lobste.rs/s/kz0jpg/everyone_seems_forget_why_gnome_g...
28. 628.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    One axis of freedom is still better than two, in this case.
29. 629.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Besides Python, none of them are officially maintained, and thus are next to useless. You can quickly verify it, there is very few qt programs written in something other than c++/python. As much as I dislike C, C FFI is universal and t
30. 630.▲
    by kaba0 3y ago

    Prove yourself right first. Literally the creators behind several of these projects called out that what you are saying is outright false. I’m commenting in multiple places because fighting disinformation is very hard (compared to producing