vlang1dot0

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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Yeah, it's absolutely wild. Even the main contributors don't really know what they're talking about, they just regurgitate the party line. http://imgur.com/a/hUXR6s3 For instance, when asked how the memo
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Most of us also don't splash it all over hn/reddit like it's the second coming of Christ.
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Is gitly supposed to be solid code?
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Calling this "a really great"web app is a significant stretch. It's an extremely bare bones clone of GitHub. Another case of over promising and under delivering from the V team.
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Given that those people are Linux kernel devs, that's great!
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Firefox has explicitly used unstable Rust features for years. Their build system opts into this behavior knowing these features are not guaranteed to be stable in future versions. It's 100% unsurprising that using unstable features mea
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Can you explain how a conservative garbage collector solves all leaks?
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
No reply to the autofree comment? Unsurprising. Since you want it so much, here you go: - "No undefined behavior" -> How does V prevent this? V currently can't even generate well formed C code for all valid V so how do you
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
CoffeeScript was popular until Typescript came along and actually added something useful to JavaScript instead of just changing the syntax.
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Who cares? These people seem to care https://twitter.com/v_language/status/1339223357800263682?s=...
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Imagine thinking that GitHub stars are indicative of anything at all. You might as well measure popularity by how many times your webpage has been bookmarked.
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
It's not terribly impressive when the compiler just outputs C and invokes TCC or your platform's compiler to do the actual work. V is far more like a different syntax for C than it is a real language. Perhaps one day that will cha
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Yep. Very telling when no one on the server can explain it and anyone who asks is silenced.
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
You solved the memory management for one particular program written in exactly the style necessary to avoid leaks for the demo. You'll find as you fix other programs, you'll introduce UAFs into this one which is, I suspect, one re
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
I think it would be more productive to direct the attention to https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/1247 which catalogues a number of issues with the proposed approach and yet hasn't had any activity in 9 m
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
The last time I asked about how the memory management would work, the conversation was quickly shut down by a vlang dev (not Alex) who grilled on me on why I wanted to know how the language worked. I've seen this same reaction to other
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
He lives in Sweden where the cost of living is quite a bit lower than most of the US and also has people contributing to him on GitHub. A quick Google search suggests it's quite possible to live on $1k a month in Sweden for one person
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by vlang1dot0 5y ago
Things have improved but it's not clear the author realizes the magnitude of what he's trying to do. The big ticket item is the autofree memory management system which promises near C/Rust performance and minimal overhead wit
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
> It has incremental compilation, in-place binary patching, the ability to use code before declaration in a file, compile-time code execution, and extremely low compile times. Rust itself doesn't have most of those. Rust has all of
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
Looks like the two main issues were: 1. Some crates in the ecosystem have "extension traits" that add the same method to `f32`. Adding this into std will cause conflicts with those methods so users will need to disambiguate or rem
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
> all the while yelling at us old fogies for being old and fogey. TIL that being 27 makes you an old fogie.
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
What AAA games exist in C#?
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
> 0 games have shipped in Rust and there is no plan anytime soon in the future that it will. That's trivially false. > Last week, I released A Snake’s Tale on iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. > A Snake’s Tale was program
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
> Minecraft was written in Java, so that can't be it. What does that have to do with the parent comment? The usual argument I've seen is that game developers "move too fast", "don't have everything designed
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
It's a game not a framework unless I'm completely misreading their website. The advantage vs some C# library is essentially the advantages of Rust over C#: precise control over memory layout and usage, no GC, higher performance, a
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
Ah yes, the average citizen will definitely trust that "homomorphic encryption" isn't just some nonsense made up so the election can be rigged.
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
Rust has had that for a long time as well. This is first-party support from Microsoft for Rust in contrast to community supported options like in D.
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
As is pretty typical for the V community, there's a lot of amazing features listed on the home page, most of which are "wip" as they like to say or completely unimplemented. The feature list is aspirational. Maybe one day the
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
What "writing" would that be exactly?
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by vlang1dot0 6y ago
I have tried this before and generally the response to my issues has been "this will be fixed" with no further explanation that would allow having a discussion and thinking through the soundness of the idea of even letting someone

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