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  • It's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slur

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  • You're aware that Rust gives you access to the full C ABI?

    What language are you going to use instead that has a better ABI story? Swift? Or maybe a dynamic language like Python?

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  • He says he has had permission. Given that it's a mostly 1 person project it's possibly true.

  • Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs C Linux Divide

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  • Like sudo that has had zero days lurking for 10 years?

    I'm not advocating for reimplementing stuff for no good reason though.

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  • And there are apps that make it very very easy and fun. Check out street complete.

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  • You can contribute them!

    There's a pretty barebones editor in Organic Maps, but you can also check out Street Complete and Every door (more advanced and less user friendly, though insanely efficient)

  • Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs C Linux Divide

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  • Zig is a very new and immature language. It won't be kernel-ready for at l'East another 10 years.

    a better syntax

    That's pretty suggestive. Rust syntax is pretty good. Postfix try is just better for example.

    Zig also uses special syntax for things like error and nullability instead of having them just be enums, making the language more complex and less flexible for no benefit.

    Syntax is also not everything. Rust has extremely good error messages. Going through Zig's learning documentation, half the error messages are unreadable because I have to scroll to see the actual error and data because it's on the same line as the absolute path as the file were the error comes from

    No hidden memory allocation

    That's a library design question, not a language question. Rust for Linux uses its own data collections that don't perform hidden memory allocations instead of the ones from the standard library.

    it's more readable

    I don't know, Rust is one of the most readablelangueage for me.

    Fast compile time

    Is it still the case once you have a very large project and make use of comptime?

    it's simpler to learn

    Not true. Because it doesn't have the guardrails that rust has, you must build a mental model of where the guardrails should be so you don't make mistakes. Arguably this is something that C maintainers already know how to do, but it's also not something they do flawlessly from just looking at the bugs that regularly need to be fixed.

    Being able to write code faster does not equate being able to write correct code faster.

    Really great interop with C

    Yes, because it's basically C with some syntax sugar. Rust is a Generational change.

  • Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs C Linux Divide

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  • It is absolue in safe Rust, aka 99% of Rust code.

  • so my friend asked me to explain whats an rss feed

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  • Norway

  • Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives

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  • That's not going to happen within the lifetime of the batteries of the trains though.

  • Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives

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  • But even in that case it's 10x better to have more frequent, cheaper diesel trains than having insanely expensive and heavy battery trains.

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  • Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you meant using your phone as a trackpad sorry

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  • Kde connect has that I think

  • Mozilla adds stupid AI stuff with horrible T&C

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  • I have large doubts on an AIs ability to reliably spot fakes.

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  • WhatsApp has MITM on the server side which is how Facebook scans your messages for targeted advert

    You shouldn't make claims like this when there is no evidence for it.

    Signal which (unless they changed something with the profiles thing) was always P2P E2E

    Signal has never been P2P.

  • Mullvad VPN or Proton VPN?

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  • And now you can have it through NAT-PMP on ProtonVON

  • An unwelcome attendee has joined the Paris Olympic Games: Covid-19

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  • This is the Olympics. Losing 1% performance because your body is fighting a barely noticeable virus is a problem.

  • First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Drops on August 8 - OMG! Ubuntu

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  • They dix not build the compositor from scratch, they built it on top of smithay, a library similar to wlroots but written in Rust.

    I don't know if you've actually tried to use GTK or QT, but it's insanely painful. There is a reason almost all apps are written in Electron. Native GUI toolkits suck. If they had used GTK they would have still had an outdated and hard to maintain toolkit, and to deal with Gnome politics. Using GTK was actually the initial idea.

    If we want Linux Desktop to succeed, at some point we have to build tools that people want to use. I'm glad they're doing it.

  • After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts

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  • I don't mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I'm pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.

  • After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts

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  • I don't mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I'm pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.