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TehPers

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  • UI crate and add game stuff, or game engine and add UI stuff

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  • For a graphics-intensive application, this (or something custom with egui).

    Bevy also doesn't need to redraw every N milliseconds or anything. You can create a custom game loop and redraw only when needed, whether that's 60fps or only on window event.

    There's also no reason a Bevy app couldn't be embedded within a larger application. You can create the Bevy app when needed, render to a render target rather than the window surface, then manually draw that where you need to in your egui app. This also means you can stop the app, or at least the game loop, when it's not needed anymore.

  • Code comments should apply to the state of the system at the point the comment “executes”

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  • I got a simple approach to comments: do whatever makes the most sense to you and your team and anyone else who is expected to read or maintain the code.

    All these hard rules around comments, where they should live, whether they should exist, etc. exist only to be broken by edge cases. Personally I agree with this post in the given example, but eventually an edge case will come up when this no longer works well.

    I think far too many people focus on comments, especially related to Clean Code. At the end of the day, what I want to see is:

    • Does the code work? How do you know?
    • What does the code do? How do you know? How do I know?
    • Can I easily add to your code without breaking it?

    Whether you use comments at all, where you place them, whether they are full sentences, fragments, lowercase, sentence case, etc makes no difference to me as long as I know what the code does when I see it (assuming sufficient domain knowledge).

  • My search for a software development job in 2025

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  • This sounds to me like we need to move to Germany. It's not uncommon for people in the US to apply to hundreds, or even thousands, of jobs and get a single-digit number of interviews (or offers, in industries where interviewing is uncommon) out of it, regardless of effort put into the application. Most applications are rejected before a human ever reads them.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • The medium (lol) is annoying, but it didn't ask me to pay. Is the article not free for you?

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • The article goes into depth about what you should be using. Floats and doubles are not designed for use with base 10 fractions. They're good at estimating them, but not accurate enough for real financial use.

    There's also not much reason to reinvent the wheel for an already solved problem. Many languages have this data type already built into the language, and the rest usually have it available through a package.

  • Just Let Me Select Text

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  • Browsers have supported the javascript: scheme for a long time, so I guess it just abuses that.

  • Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools

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  • I agree, Zig is awesome. But the author missed the entire point of the borrow checker. It exists to make you a better programmer, not to just annoy you. The author immediately then showcased why the borrow checker exists in their example of why it's annoying lol.

  • Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools

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  • In Zig, we would just allocate the list with an allocator, store pointers into it for the tag index, and mutate freely when we need to add or remove notes. No lifetimes, no extra wrappers, no compiler gymnastics, that’s a lot more straightforward.

    What happens to the pointers into the list when the list needs to reallocate its backing buffer when an "add" exceeds its capacity?

    Rust's borrow checker isn't usually just a "Rust-ism". It's all low level languages, and many times also higher level languages. Zig doesn't let you ignore what Rust is protecting against, it just checks it differently and puts more responsibility on the developer.

  • Which GUI crate?

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  • The title seems a bit confusing. Do you want a game library, or a GUI library?

    Assuming you're doing game dev, bevy is probably the furthest along, though there are a few alternatives. You can enable only the features and plugins you need to lower the memory footprint, though it's not clear to me how low of memory you're looking for.

    As far as I know, everything uses winit. If you need the feature enabled, you can add it as a dependency directly (in Cargo.toml) and enable the feature.

    If you're having a hard time, maybe consider a completed game engine. Have you looked at Godot? Does it need to be in Rust?

  • (Git): Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatory

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  • This, or a runtime dependency on rustc or something, was my initial impression as well. The link clarifies it pretty quickly though.

  • (Git): Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatory

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  • Weird cutoff on the title. This is the full sentence:

    Announce that Git 3.0 will make Rust a mandatory part of our build infrastructure.

    I'm interested to see how this goes. Maybe they could work with the gitoxide devs to see if there's some work that's already been done.

    Not really sure myself if Git needs to be RiiR, but that's their call to make I guess.

  • Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno

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  • But this case is bigger than JavaScript. It’s about whether trademark law works as written, or whether billion-dollar corporations can ignore the rule that trademarks cannot be generic or abandoned. “JavaScript” is obviously both. If Oracle wins anyway, it undermines the integrity of the whole system.

    If the law costs $200k to enforce, then the law already doesn't work as written.

    Anyway, good luck Deno! We're all hoping you win this.

  • How do I design a multi-language database?

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  • Storing UI assets in a database is unusual because assets aren't data, they are part of your UI. This is of course assuming a website - an application may choose to save assets in a local sqlite database or similar for convenience.

    It's the same reason I wouldn't store static images in a database though - there's no reason to do so. Databases provide no additional value over just storing the images next to the code, and same with localizations.

    User-generated content changes things because that data is now dynamically generated, not static assets for a frontend.

  • How do I design a multi-language database?

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  • I know I probably sound like an ass but it really is that bad

    Nah I work in shitty codebases on a regular basis, and the less I need to touch them, the happier I am.

    With regards to other localization changes, it's not important to localize everything perfectly, but it's good to be aware of what you can improve and what might cause some users to be less comfortable with the interface. That way you're informed and can properly justify a sacrifice (like "it'd cost us a lot of time to support RTL interfaces but only 0.1% of users would use them") rather than be surprised that there even is one being made.

    Also, user-generated content explains why these are in a DB, and now it makes a lot more sense to me. User-generated translations used as-is makes more sense than trying to force Project Fluent (or other similar tools) into it.

  • How do I design a multi-language database?

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  • Localization is a hard problem, but storing your translations in the DB is a bit unusual unless you're trying to translate user data or something.

    I'd recommend looking into tools like Project Fluent or similar that are designed around translating.

    As for the schema you have, if you're sticking with it, I would change the language into an IETF language tag or similar instead. The important part is that it separates language variants. For example, US English and British (or international) English have differences, Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese have differences, Mexican Spanish and Spain Spanish have differences, etc.

    Using an ID instead of the text content itself as part of the PK should be a no-brainer. Languages evolve over time, and translations change. PKs should not. Your choice of PK = (TextContentId, Language) is the most reasonable to me, though I still think that translations should live as assets to your application instead to better integrate with existing localization tools.

    One last thing: people tend to believe that translating is enough to localize. It is not. For example, RTL languages often swap the entire UI direction to RTL, not just the text direction. Also, different cultures sometimes use different colors and icons than each other.

  • AI Coding

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  • it is the same code as you produce manually.

    LLMs do not create the same code that I would, nor do they produce code at the same level that I would. Additionally, LLMs are not deterministic (normally - there are ways to manually seed some but it's rare). Determinism has a very specific meaning. Compilers supporting reproducible builds are deterministic. LLMs producing a different output each time are not.

    it is a task of a programmer to review it before publishing it.

    Tell that to my coworkers. It's honestly insulting the code I have to review and contribute to. Having used these tools myself, I'm better off writing the code myself.

  • RSS co-creator launches RSL protocol for AI data licensing

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  • Currently everything on the Internet is assumed to be free.

    This isn't true at all. Content on websites is protected by copyright laws as well.

  • Microsoft is turning Rust into a first-class language for developing secure Windows drivers

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  • As a Rust dev who has to target Windows, more support for Rust from MS is very relevant and important to me. And I can't imagine I'm alone here.

    Maybe you mistook this community for !opensource@programming.dev?

  • Finally open sourced Brahma.js Framework

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  • It's not open source? The repository doesn't seem to include the Rust source code.

    Being closed source, I have no reason to believe it isn't malicious. Open source means auditable. Closed source means "trust me bro".

    Edit: nevermind, I think I found the right repo. The package links to another one. Might want to fix that. Also, your profile on GH says it's still closed source.