moldavi

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by moldavi 6y ago
If typesetting is performance critical, what would count as a non-performance critical program?
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by moldavi 6y ago
Whats your criteria/cutoff for what should be in a standard library?
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by moldavi 6y ago
This isnt quite true, the borrow checker forces us to use things like RefCell, or Vec with (generational) indices, which all have run-time overhead. (this isnt even counting those who use Rc)
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by moldavi 6y ago
Anything I can read up on why fragmentation is so expensive? My naive brain keeps saying "why not use a hash map of lists, by size" but I know I'm missing something.
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by moldavi 6y ago
Rust is great, but it can't do very basic things that OOP offer. You can't make a simple observer in Rust without RC<RefCell<T>>, unsafe, global-ish mutable state, or being forced into some framework.
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by moldavi 6y ago
Really? Would love to hear more!
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by moldavi 6y ago
What is C++ used for besides systems software?
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by moldavi 6y ago
And it has a difficult learning curve to learn how to use it without unsafe =)
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by moldavi 6y ago
Not from what I've seen, and idiomatic Rust (to my frustration) advises against traits in favor of enums, probably because they dont do well in Rust. Also, I didnt claim abstraction == OO, but Rust struggles with both. Luckily, Rust sh
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by moldavi 6y ago
Rust fits well in low-level cases and data-oriented design situations. For things needing any abstraction or modern OO, the borrow checker really damages your architecture.
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by moldavi 6y ago
I'm experienced in both, and IME Rust isnt that much better than C++. It's generally more fun than C++ and a bit safer, but all in all it's not 5x better, not even 2x... I'd place it around 1.1x perhaps. Each had a diffi
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by moldavi 6y ago
As much as I enjoy Rust, I have to agree with GP. Rust team needed to add a lot of complexity to the language to allow us to solve the borrow checker puzzles, such as Pin, Cell/RefCell, split_at_mut, the list goes on, and keeps growing
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by moldavi 6y ago
You speak to my soul!
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by moldavi 6y ago
Cant MS just provide a button somewhere that downloads and installs the browser? A computer doesn't need a browser to download something from the internet (such as a browser).
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by moldavi 6y ago
From what I've heard, the borrow checker is much more suited to low-level programs like embedded programs, and for other kinds of programs, the borrow checker is in the way a lot more. That could be why you don't understand the co
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by moldavi 6y ago
Ive always wondered something: comparing to languages like Swift, is Rust really better if it takes so much cognitive overhead and architectural backflips to work around the borrow checker's limitations? Couldnt we be spending that tim