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by nindalf 4y ago
> NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired game
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by nindalf 4y ago
You see what you expect to see.
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by nindalf 4y ago
> It's that those devs get to dictate which platforms are even capable of making use of the software written in those languages. Adding other tiers is welcomed. Take a look at the supported platforms ( https://doc.rust-lan
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by nindalf 4y ago
> Why is it ~twice as expensive as a per-user license? Because enterprises are willing to pay a lot more. It’s the same reason the pro version of GitHub is $4/user/month while the enterprise version is $21/user/month.
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by nindalf 4y ago
> need multiple implementations This thinking is understandable but it’s basically pattern matching. There were two successful languages that followed this model and so a language that seeks to replace them should adopt the same model of
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by nindalf 4y ago
This is pretty good! I spot checked one video ( https://jonatron.github.io/fosdem2023whisper/files/rust_core... ) and it's done a decent job. It mostly makes mistakes around a few proper nouns. - coreutils =&gt
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by nindalf 4y ago
Fun fact - The author of this post used to work at JetBrains on IDEs.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Great article. TFA this thread is based on is low quality. It’s breathless in its criticism of the legislation but uses hyperbole instead of calmly laying out the issues. The Maven Central guy puts it plainly - the proposed legislation does
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by nindalf 4y ago
Apple has used the same term to describe the magnetically attached charger to both the iPhone and the iPad. They’re not the same though. Anyway, I don’t think you need to worry on the phone front. Apple released their tech for everyone to u
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by nindalf 4y ago
I’m always fretting I haven’t written good code no matter what language I write in. But the Rust compiler + linter (clippy) make me fret a bit less.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Too much conspiracy theory. AFAIK there definitely is a preference for Apache/MIT dual licence but this is probably because of the influence of the Rust compiler itself. Most of the initial Rust code was written by people involved with
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Chinese State Media Persuades a Global Audience That the China Model Is Superior(osf.io)
13 points by nindalf 4y ago|9 comments
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by nindalf 4y ago
Dan there’s no sugarcoating this - you’ve got it wrong on this one. I say this as a supporter of your moderation policies in general. The sooner you reverse this decision, the better for everyone.
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by nindalf 4y ago
So even while working with modern C++, only 48% of developers want to continue working with it? And only 7.6% of developers want to learn it?
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by nindalf 4y ago
In general rewriting a well functioning, battle tested codebase is probably a bad idea. But sticking to “battle tested” means a local minima at times. For example, there’s no shortage of CVEs in OpenSSL’s past or future. It’s definitely “ba
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by nindalf 4y ago
The article makes a mistake here in interpreting the results of the StackOverflow survey ( https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-... ). Here’s the summary with respect to Rust - 9.3% of respondents
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Proposal to replace create-react-app(github.com)
1 points by nindalf 4y ago|0 comments
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by nindalf 4y ago
About the fun aspect of using Rust. Once I learned it, nothing feels as fun as Rust for two reasons - when I'm done writing the program it almost always works first try and second, when it runs I know this is the fastest possible progr
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by nindalf 4y ago
As a Hebrew speaking palaeontologist, I would get confused about “golem” or “Stegosaurus”.
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by nindalf 4y ago
No, I’m imagining cross-language usage. Someone not using Go isn’t going to use the crypto/tls package from the Go std lib regardless of its quality. The overhead and difficulty of calling into Go make this infeasible. To include a lib
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by nindalf 4y ago
> It is far easier to write bindings from an existing C API to a managed implementation than write, audit and maintain a whole new stack from scratch. I’d agree, if rustls wasn’t already written, audited and maintained. And there are oth
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by nindalf 4y ago
> you could try to make OpenSSL memory safe by rewriting it in Rust Or just write a better crypto stack without the many legacy constraints holding OpenSSL back. Rustls ( https://github.com/rustls/rustls ) does that.
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by nindalf 4y ago
I agree in general except HN also rewards quality a bit more. All new comments get a few minutes to bask at the top of their subthreads. So a really good, late comment can still get to the top and stay there.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Except Tiobe can't be taken seriously. https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/
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by nindalf 4y ago
I still see you didn't read what I wrote. Please, just take a moment to read before firing off a comment. I didn't make the claim that C++ is losing popularity, but I did mention some sources that do. These are marginal, not drama
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by nindalf 4y ago
Economies of scale exist. Once those economies of scale lower prices, they allow previously nonexistent commerce to now become viable. Larger firms will benefit more from economies of scale than relatively smaller firms, meaning their produ
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A better source for what? It doesn't boil down to one metric or statistic. I see you didn't actually read the link I pasted, especially not the section "Evaluating languages for projects". There's several possible w
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by nindalf 4y ago
How did you parse 200m as "2 million"? It's actually "200 million".
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This post and PR was written by the primary maintainer of the project. It wasn't a drive-by proposal by a rando.
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by nindalf 4y ago
Please stop citing Tiobe. https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/

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