You might want to ease up on the conspiracy theories. I’m not part of some irustinati that wants to force everyone to use Rust and nothing else. I was merely describing what I believe to be reality. In fact, I expect the strongest opposition to a third language will come again from those who’ve been coding nothing but C for the past decades.
I really don’t see why they should feel obliged to include another language, just because they included Rust. There is no fairness guarantee or whatever. If anything, Rust now fills the memory safety and modern language gap, so there is much less of a need to include another language.
To point it out for folks unfamiliar with Rust, I consider this comment borderline misinformation.
I don’t know in what world the Rust compiler is considered unreliable. In my experience, it is one of the most reliable toolchains across all programming languages.
The Rust compiler is slow, because it does so many more checks than the C compiler, which is what these devs want. This is also barely relevant while actually developing, because then incremental compilation kicks in, which makes subsequent builds rather quick.
And Rust binaries are primarily larger than C binaries, because it does not use dynamic linking of dependencies. In the kernel, you cannot use dynamic linking anyways, because you need a running kernel to have a filesystem from which to dynamically load these.
Linus has also declared Rust as basically inevitable before, since more and more kernel maintainers retire and not many young devs learn C anymore, at least not to a proficiency where you can handle kernel development.
You mean Gitea? Forgejo is a fork from it, maintained by a non-profit, so preferrable to most folks.
I plan to hold a relatively informal talk about declarative macros in Rust at $DAYJOB and the colleague who organizes that used an LLM to write the invitation flavor text.
I don’t hate it for that. It does some text formatting with emojis and whatnot, which is decent enough. It does have information about declarative macros, so it can throw in some rough ideas what listeners can expect, like reduced boilerplate.
What I certainly like less is that it sounds like the most bombastic salesperson, and of course doesn’t know what my talk will actually be about, so it just promises everything.
Including some straight-up non-sense, like apparently I’ll show folks how to use declarative macros to “improve performance”. That genuinely had us wondering, if that’s possible. I’m guessing, you could theoretically pre-compute a value at compile-time, but them being declarative macros, you’d have to do horrid constructs, like basic addition becomes the equivalent of if a==3 && b==5 then 8. I will most definitely not show that.
My best guess is that it saw that it’s about Rust, so it just threw in “performance” somewhere. 🫠
Well, and of course, it repeats itself and writes lots of empty phrases. The text for the invitation is almost as long as my notes for the talk…
I want a programming language that supports German style composite words
Java
Yeah, one time I helped out an HR person with an Excel formula. It took like 5 minutes to write the formula on my laptop. Then I sent it to them and it took another 5 minutes to translate it into the local language…
At $DAYJOB, we’re currently setting up basically a way to bridge an interface over the internet, so it transports everything that enters on an interface across the aether. Well, and you already guessed it, I accidentally configured it for eth0 and couldn’t SSH in anymore.
Where it becomes fun, is that I actually was at work. I was setting it up on two raspis, which were connected to a router, everything placed right next to me. So, I figured, I’d just hook up another Ethernet cable, pick out the IP from the router’s management interface and SSH in that way.
Except I couldn’t reach the management interface anymore. Nothing in that network would respond.
Eventually, I saw that the router’s activity lights were blinking like Christmas decoration. I’m guessing, I had built a loop and therefore something akin to a broadcast storm was overloading the router. Thankfully, the solution was then relatively straightforward, in that I had to unplug one of the raspis, SSH in via the second port, nuke our configuration and then repeat for the other raspi.
Had to write some sticky notes at work yesterday and the pad, they have for it, always switches where the sheets are glued together for every single sheet.
I assume, that has some purpose, but it was rather annoying, especially since I actually wanted to write specifically on the sticky part and then cut off the rest…
Oh man, my local shop sells these as “makkaroni” and I was so confused, because I knew those to be a different shape. Now I just checked Wikipedia and it literally has a heading like:
“Makkaroni” in Germany
And it says that apparently we refer to any longer, straight, tube-shaped pasta as “makkaroni”. I guess, it’s alright that we don’t use the Italian spelling after all. 🫠
Lots of mid-sized local stores opened web stores during the pandemic, at least here in Europe. I’ll often shop at those, even if they’re not truly local to where I live.
If you’ve got a working OS on there and you happen to know that command, then you can do that, yeah. I don’t need to enter the BIOS nearly often enough, though, that hammering a button is a big deal…
They are working on a new touch keyboard: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard
But yeah, no idea when it’ll be ready.
Well, I happen to be lucky enough that this particular project is actually developed as part of my dayjob. And the other projects, if I’m honest, are just projects I developed to scratch my own itch and then uploaded onto Codeberg with a libre license. I haven’t really announced them anywhere, except to a few colleagues, so I basically never get suggestions there.
But yeah, this project being part of my dayjob kind of makes it even more clear-cut that I’m not going to put in extra time to develop features that no one currently sponsors…
Apparently, the name is derived from “jetstream”, so it probably is supposed to be pronounced like cheddar. But a German who does not know that would probably pronounce it as Yetta, yes.
Got a comment last week on one of the open-source projects I’m contributing to. We have an issue open, documenting that we’d like to support a certain feature, and this person clearly took quite a bit of time to pull together information, which gets us over the first major hurdle for this feature.
But also, this feature is really not the highest priority to us right now. Really had to stop myself from promising that we’d look into it in my response, because it is still quite a bit of work to actually make it a reality. I’m still new to all this, so I still have to learn to not feel bad about it. If they want to scratch their own itch, they’ll have to scratch it in full. That I’d review their code before merging, is honestly already quite a bit of effort put in by me for something that I don’t care to solve right now. That I take time to respond is basic decency, but still also uses up time. Really, I had not understood before, how much work it has to be for maintainers with an actually active community.
Jeez, I still remember when the production cost of videos was “I bought this camcorder a while back, so I guess, I might as well use it”.
I don’t believe, Zig provides much in terms of safety? To my knowledge, it uses manual memory management à la C, just being less horrid in some aspects, like using an option type instead of null pointers.