silluk

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by silluk 6y ago
To me it's not the trivial cases like this that make type inference useful. It's when you get longer types like `Arc<Mutex<HashMap<String, String>>>`. Granted, that could be solved with a `type` declaration (or `
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by silluk 7y ago
I wouldn't be too concerned about that in a container since you're probably not running systemd in that context.
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by silluk 9y ago
A sum type is the more general name for a Swift/Rust enum.
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by silluk 10y ago
I've been coming back to Haskell sporadically over the past couple of months. Every time I do I find the documentation for things like Prelude to be excellent since that's stuff that I already understand but when trying to dive he
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by silluk 10y ago
I've been following futures since the announcement blog post came out (and had been using rust for several months before that) and I've never found a group of crates that intermix so well together. Simple stuff like tokio-tls impl
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by silluk 10y ago
It's a far cry from Haskell but I've found Rust's type system to be a breath of fresh air coming from C++. Stuff like destructuring assignment and matching on enums (or anything really) while not as powerful as their equivale
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Announcing Rust 1.12.1(blog.rust-lang.org)
176 points by silluk 10y ago|27 comments
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by silluk 10y ago
There's nothing preventing Whatsapp from releasing an update that has a flag on your phone number/id that turns off e2e for messages that you send. If their software was open source we would be able to verify what we are running b
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by silluk 10y ago
Similarly, the word "loanword" (used to describe words borrowed from other languages) is gairaigo 外来語 which is literally 外来 (gairai) "foreign" + 語 (go) "word/language". Japanese is filled with words where
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by silluk 12y ago
I think that one of the other reasons that people are discouraged from continuing their programming is the information overload that you go through when learning something new (Especially something so large and complicated). I know that man