nbjoerg

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   by nbjoerg 4y ago

   The irony of Richard's decision and justification is how misguided it was (and is) on multiple fronts. First, GCC as a whole has never been technically superior to the commercial competition. The reason why GCC was popular outside the
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   by nbjoerg 4y ago

   The ones on HN that actually work don't have the time to run after every few language feature either ;)
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   by nbjoerg 4y ago

   I find that argument funny, given that Rust can't be updated often enough before every other library breaks.
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   by nbjoerg 5y ago

   Funny, I rarely use branches (or topics) in Mercurial unless it is a complicated long-term project. Modern "everything on a branch" was invented by git users because the UI forces naming things. Mercurial allows sharing code and s
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   by nbjoerg 5y ago

   There are at least two different commercial hosting sites that implement a pull request model. If you want ephemeral branches like in git, hg branches are indeed not the right choice. But that doesn't mean that they don't have the