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by ripley12 4y ago
clap adds about 300kb with my usual release mode profile (lto = true, opt-level = 'z', panic = 'abort', strip = true). Bigger than I would like but for most projects I'm OK taking the binary size hit for nicer ergon
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> Does anyone really think there is an advantage Rust brings here over everything else -- Golang, Python etc. Yes! IMO building CLI tools is one of Rust's sweet spots for a few reasons: - Rust is great at building small, fast, stati
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by ripley12 4y ago
On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
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> I’ve felt welcome to contribute to every other open source project out there This is strange to me, because... we're not welcome in every other open source project. Many open source projects are maintained by a single person or a
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SQLite generally doesn't accept contributions. "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution" https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
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by ripley12 4y ago
I'm not religious but I've always liked this; it's fun to think of the SQLite developers as a small monastery. If monasteries can produce beer for the world (see: the Trappists), why not software?
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by ripley12 4y ago
Apple and Microsoft should really throw some money at Rui; Mold is a massive improvement to developer experience, and the sooner it's ported to their platforms the better. I find myself defaulting to Linux for Rust development these
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by ripley12 4y ago
That post by Scott Hunter was a way to save face after Liuson backed down. It is absolutely not truthful about the original reason for removing dotnet watch, and was widely criticized as such at the time. Please trust me on this; the whole
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by ripley12 4y ago
> The article says 500K people work in tech. No, it doesn't.
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> This is not even true. It is absolutely true. The CLI-first `dotnet watch` was pretty much done (I was using it in preview for months beforehand), and it was cut to promote hot reload as a Visual Studio feature. Source: I'm the pe
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by ripley12 4y ago
This. Bret Victor’s Inventing on Principle talk changed my life. And the funny thing is, he’s not pitching a tool or even his own specific principles; it’s largely a talk about how you can work toward a cause of your own choosing. But Bret’
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by ripley12 4y ago
Your link does not seem to support that assertion. I am very doubtful that a quarter of BC’s workers are in the technology sector, however you define it.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Depends on the linker, no? My understanding is that mold is able to parallelize much better than the the default Rust linker.
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It's interesting how The Old New Thing is clearly a passion project for Raymond, but it's also an essential part of Windows documentation. I've run into a lot of situations where Raymond's blog is way more useful than th
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by ripley12 4y ago
I write a lot of .NET software that runs on Linux and for console apps, startup is generally comparable to Go - the impact of the JIT on startup times is greatly exaggerated in my experience. I'm less familiar with startup times for AS
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by ripley12 4y ago
FWIW, whenever I've profiled startup of .NET apps the JIT is pretty fast to start up. The only times I've noticed slow startup on recent .NET versions is with WPF apps, and that seems to be mostly because WPF does so much work o
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by ripley12 4y ago
> The narrative is really just the glue around a well-designed series of incremental problems. I felt like The Little Schemer should have given those (nicely incremental) problems more real-world context. I worked my way through it and w
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by ripley12 4y ago
Things are fine on Linux even without Thread Director support. I've been running Fedora 36 (kernel v5.17) on a 12900K for a few months now without any noticeable issues.
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by ripley12 4y ago
I'm not sure why you concluded that SQLite is the problem when you built a "really cool distributed database" with Kafka. Distributed databases are complicated, Kafka's complicated. If you're saying that a replicate
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by ripley12 4y ago
This fits with my recent experience. I've spent the last 2 months working on a large open-source Rust project, and it's been mostly easy; I make self-contained changes that fit into the existing architecture and I don't have
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by ripley12 4y ago
You can use SQLite in strict mode if you prefer. https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
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by ripley12 4y ago
The Sysinternals suite is incredible; acquiring Sysinternals and maintaining the tools is one of the best things the Windows team has ever done. I don't love everything about Windows these days, and I've mostly switched away from
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by ripley12 4y ago
PowerToys is able to grow, experiment and evolve much more quickly as a standalone application because shipping something inside Windows is hard . The OS has a very long support and compatibility guarantee that makes it extremely difficult
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by ripley12 4y ago
It's gone on for almost a year now. Some initial response was warranted but IMO continuing to bring this up is reflecting poorly on Casey at this point.
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by ripley12 4y ago
Not a liar. Casey was being combative, and still is . He keeps mobilizing his entire community against a small team because 1 GitHub issue didn't go the way he wanted. I can't believe this is still going on.
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> You can take a look at System.Diagnostics.Process for one of the worst offenders. Yeah, this is one of my least favourite APIs in all of .NET. My understanding is that the .NET team is planning to redo it in the next few years, but if
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by ripley12 4y ago
Yeah, the default scaling options are unacceptable. I was able to work around it by installing GNOME Tweaks (absolutely bonkers that this isn't installed by default) and changing the font scaling factor, but until I did that my 4k moni
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by ripley12 5y ago
Do you have any favourite dev reaction videos?
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by ripley12 5y ago
Compile times are still pretty bad, I recently upgraded from a pretty-new laptop to a blazing-fast desktop (12900K) just for Rust development. But at least they're acceptable now: using the mold linker, incremental builds take 1-2s on
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by ripley12 5y ago
Public, mostly because it makes cloning my dotfiles to new computers/VMs much easier. But yeah, requires a bit of care to avoid committing secrets.

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