He did call it a "shiny language of the day". That's criticism. He's saying the popularity of Rust is due to temporary hype rather than because it is intrinsically good.
C is simpler in the way that a motorbike is simpler than a car. Simplicity isn't the only criterion or we would write everything in assembly which is really simple.
CHERI is even weirder. CHERI pointers store
128-bit capabilities in addition to the 64-bit address we’re used to
The 128-bit capability (actually 129 since there's a tag bit) includes the address. It's 64-bit address + 64-bit metadata + 1-bit tag = 129-bit capability.
Before virtual memory was a thing, almost all memory was accessible.
Virtual memory has nothing to do with whether 0 is a valid address. You can have a CPU where it is valid, or one where it isn't and you'll get an access fault if you try to access it. You can also have virtual memory where page 0 is mappable, or not.
I think the author knew that, based on the later points so it's probably just bad wording. Interesting point about wasm too!
Pff it's not like Linux has perfect WiFi either. I set my WiFi to auto connect to a VPN, and then delete the VPN later. That caused WiFi to always fail with no error messages except some incomprehensible deauth message in dmesg! Good luck figuring that out.
This totally might be true, but the fact that he got as far as measuring the same latency on X and Wayland... and then just gave up and is like "well never mind what the measurements say, it's definitely Wayland"... Hmm.
You gotta do the measurements. It's probably not even that hard, all you need is a USB mouse emulator (any microcontroller with USB peripheral support can do this and there are tons of examples) and a photodiode.
You don't even need to worry about display latency if you are just comparing X with Wayland.
Yeah I just took a look at it. First thing I did was click on the "source" tab on a repo. That actually makes the source tab disappear? Clearly not designed by anyone who has any experience designing sane UI.
I think Gitlab and Forgejo are better options, and not run by a creep. Forgejo is similarly fast and actually has a sane UI. The tabs don't disappear!
Yeah you only get to do that if you're Linus 😄