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by qalmakka 3y ago
I hate how people are desperately trying to embed (C)Python in their programs just to hop on the hype-driven Python bandwagon instead of doing the sane choice and just relying on Lua, which was designed to begin with to do so. Lua is simple
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by qalmakka 3y ago
I do understand that, but I'd still like a "common" basic API for those people that just want to transmit data efficiently from point A to point B. If QUIC is harder than TCP, people will just stick to that instead of switchi
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by qalmakka 3y ago
We really, REALLY need a "standard" QUIC API, this thing is getting out of hand IMHO.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
What UE sorely lacks is a good scripting language. It's clear to me that Tim Sweeney wanted to offer a C#-like experience, but using C++ - IMHO UE failed in any possible way to accomplish that - Epic made a sawed-off shotgun in place o
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by qalmakka 3y ago
UE looks cool, it's full of features, but it's also full of warts (especially when you realize how poorly designed and implemented certain parts are, and the huge mess they made with their C++). My major issue with blueprints is t
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by qalmakka 3y ago
Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of Windows UX, change my mind.
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by qalmakka 3y ago
With xwin you can download a copy of the MSVC sysroot and use it to build Windows applications on Linux. LLVM reimplemented the entire MSVC toolchain and can thus link with MSVC libraries.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
(I know, but if you take raw literals out of the equation it more or less is, thankfully you can implement raw literals as a big huge lexer hack and ignore it during parsing. There's also macros, which are a separate pickle, but then t
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by qalmakka 4y ago
I personally gave up on GUI file searching a long ago, it's one thing that sucks everywhere IMHO. I'll take CLI tools like locate or `fd` any day, they are IMHO quicker to use even on Windows.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Rust with rust-analyzer is IMHO very good nowadays, probably on par if not better than the experience with C++ on paid IDEs. The fact Rust grammar is context-free makes writing tools way easier because there's way less room for breakag
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by qalmakka 4y ago
It very much depends on how you like to work. If you are very terminal oriented IDEs are actually detrimental to productivity. I'm basically forced to use Rider at work now and I just can't stand it, I hate how it tends to hide cr
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by qalmakka 4y ago
As another comment said, try Clangd, it's IMHO superior to intellisense on VSCode and supports anything that can emit `compile_commands.json`files.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Very conveniently Edge started crashing just yesterday whenever I visited gitlab, which gave me an excellent excuse to switch my work machine to Firefox. Edge is an overall nice browser, but it's less stable than plain Chrom(ium) IMHO
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by qalmakka 4y ago
VirGL works very well but it sorely misses a Windows driver. It would be a gamechanger, but writing such a driver is probably very complex and a massive PITA, so I understand why no one has done it yet. With modern software such as DXVK, Zi
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by qalmakka 4y ago
COM ports on Windows are crap nowadays due to how crappy USB to serial adapters have become. I've seen Windows reassigning different COM names to the same device every single time it was unplugged due to it "remembering" what
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by qalmakka 4y ago
They probably took inspiration from the decades of snipping tools on Linux doing exactly that on key press. PrintScreen was AFAIK already in use as a shortcut for the snipping tool in KDE and GNOME when i started using them in the mid &#x27
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by qalmakka 4y ago
That's cursed just the way I like it.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
It has less to do with money and more to do with competence. As an Italian I've learnt the hard way how ignorant and competent there Italian government is from a technical standpoint.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
The main issue is that old people and young people have very different interests and concerns, and demographics put young people at a disadvantage. Politicians can win elections by just targeting people over 45, which mostly don't care
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by qalmakka 4y ago
LTS is a dangerous concept, really, especially in the way Debian or Red Hat do it, that is, by freezing versions at a completely random point and then attempt to backport fixes. This approach is outright dangerous, because in my experience
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Noob question: given that Zink exists and works quite well, wouldn't it been simpler to implement a Vulkan driver first and then just use Zink for OpenGL?
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Perl is so ubiquitous that makes awk and sed pretty redundant, if not outright worse. Perl regular expressions are so much better than whatever ugly mishmash sed uses that I haven't touched it in years.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
NAT is not only bad because you don't have publicly routable addresses, but because it's a hack and a pretty "clever" one at that, aka, incredibly nasty. If we had networking protocols that took into account the complexi
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by qalmakka 4y ago
I was on a packed bus yesterday at 7.30 AM. I live in Italy, which has been historically a strong Android bastion with no iMessage usage whatsoever. I was surrounded by high schoolers from lots of backgrounds, and yet the vast, vast majorit
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Don't mix up poop and chocolate - while Google's accounts aren't really that great (the whole GSuite mish-mash of nonsense doesn't really help), they are several orders of magnitude better than whatever MS is trying to
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Nö amount of arguments can deny that the vast majority of Agile nowadays is just a blatant MLM scheme. Some people ripped off other people selling them BS "Scrum Master" certifications and then promptly proceeded into roping manag
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by qalmakka 4y ago
The package manager will never attempt to clear stuff under user's home directories, just like macOS will not clear stuff under ~/Library. The package manager doesn't and cannot know what content an application has created wh
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by qalmakka 4y ago
It's pointless to have char32_t if you still need to pull several megabytes of ICU to normalize the string first in order to remove characters spanning over multiple codepoints. UTF32 is arguably dangerous because of this, it's ye
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by qalmakka 4y ago
As a long time c++ developer there's a big difference between when something shouldn't happen and when it can't happen. Rust makes certain classes of issues fundamentally impossible (ironically, leaks are possible in Rust), w
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by qalmakka 4y ago
This, also. C and C++'s build model is a train wreck, especially in C++ code gets rebuilt dozens of times due to headers being simply plopped into whatever translation unit you are building. Rust efficiently solves this by defining bui

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