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  • There's a crate for it too: anymap2

  • Not exactly the same thing but this is still pretty funny. This is code that is technically 100% legal Rust but you should definitely never write such code 😅.

  • One always lies, the other never tells the truth.

  • Is it possible to define an ecosystem in such a way that one can predict how it will evolve in stages?

    Intuitively, I think this would be a chaotic system, much like the weather. Chaotic systems cannot be predicted over long time scales.

  • TypeScript for the backend too? Sorry, can't help with that. But I'd say just open source it anyway.

  • This page has like no information basically.

  • Well there are in fact other options than Lemmy already, like Mbin and Piefed. This is good - more options means users have more choices and they all still interoperate so everyone can choose what they want without being separated.

  • Yea - when it comes to a security review, it's really the backend that matters the most though.

  • Obscurity is not security, so you could argue that you should just open source it anyway. Any security holes present are also there right now - the fact that the source code is not available is irrelevant.

    But if you insist, it may help if you say what programming language is used.

  • Ah okay haha. It's important to like the main character as he's in every scene of the whole thing basically.

    I will say... it kind of intentionally makes him annoying at the start, which makes for some good development of his character later. But he won't change completely I suppose. It does start slow, but it will really take off if you get about half-way, and I mean really take off. The first half and the second half are markedly different. You have to enjoy the mystery and just the interactions between the characters as a kind of slice-of-life thing in the start of the anime.

    It's alright, maybe it just isn't your genre or your thing. Still my personal favourite of all time, but I am a sucker for that kind of story.

  • I'll probably give season 2 a shot. As far as I gather, it's almost caught up with the manga? I'm kinda considering to just read it but maybe I'll go for the anime if it's close to caught up anyway.

    Btw have you watched Steins;Gate? Perhaps now that I've humoured your suggestion, you could humour mine :)

  • Finished the first season now. It's really good - I especially love the soundtrack and the calm nature of the first half. It sorta reminds me of the first half of Frieren (before Frieren's second half which turns into shonen fight stuff 🙄). The second half is really sad... it feels like everything is going wrong all the time and there's not really a nice resolution. It feels like the characters are struggling a lot but not managing to fix things despite it. It's kinda sad and frustrating.

    I'm really a sucker for happy endings so this style doesn't really leave me satisfied. It's not that it ended sadly per se but I wouldn't exactly call it a happy ending either. How would you say the second season compares?

  • Frankly, all of your points sound quite ignorant. Syntax is literally just a matter of getting used to it. Comparing HashMap ergonomics doesn't make sense, you should rather compare to struct construction. There are many good reasons for different string types and number types. There are good reasons not to bake in async. Rust documentation is in the code for a very good reason and it's actually really nice to read docs like that (obviously read it on docs.rs, not in the code itself).

    I could go on but there are answers to all of your specific qualms if you just bothered to look for yourself.

  • Watching Ancient Magus Bride now from your recommendation! I had it on the back burner for a while. Five episodes in, it's good. Still curious what exactly will happen, there's not too much of an actual plot. But I'm fine with it even if it goes on like this.

  • While there certainly is some blame on the programmers (to the extent that it is useful to even assign blame), I would say it is hardly fair to blame programmers for most mistakes.

    Bugs are a fact of life - the presence of bugs can hardly be blamed on a specific programmer. Rather, it is a result of the resources assigned to a project and its quality assurance. Yes, at the end of the day it comes down to the lines of code written, but everything and anyone involved in the process up to that point (like designers, project managers, people managers and of course executives at the top) are to blame as well. Especially the decision-makers who deprioritized security or quality assurance are to blame, much more so than the programmer who wrote the line.

  • Yea I get that - although I kinda like the slow start, it makes the hook all the better. I also wouldn't have minded Erased going on for a bit longer, I think Steins;Gate is like the perfect length.

  • Just watched it based on this comment. This anime is seriously good, definitely in my top 5s.

    Have you watched Steins;Gate? It definitely has some parallels.

  • Gurren Lagan

    What is so great about this? Just watched the first couple of eps. First impression is not good: It seems like the classical mindless shonen fighting anime alongside pretty childish humor and a distastefully sexualized main female character. Her outfit is literally a bikini and she's sexualized in the very first scene and in basically every scene she's in since that one, wtf?

  • Not better necessarily, just different. But yes, it exists alongside Lemmy. Hopefully in the future there could be many more alternatives.