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  • The bloody managers are the biggest problem. Most don't understand code much less the process of making a software product. They force you into idiotic meetings where they want to change how things work because they "don't have visibility into the process" which just translated to "I don't understand what you're doing".

    Also trying to force people who love machines but people less so into leading people is a recipe for unhappiness.

    But at least the bozos at the top get to make the decisions and the cheddar for being ignorant and not listening.

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  • Does crates.io have a backup plan?

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  • I'd very much welcome a crates.io alternative that doesn't require github and supports namespacing by username or org. The dependency on a proprietary platform rubs me the wrong way.

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  • This is a great initiative and I wish there were more orgs that did this. However, I'm now convinced that we need opensource licenses which stipulate remuneration when used for financial gain.

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  • I said it a while ago and it's getting much closer now: Linux will become the OS for people who want to game on a Mac. With all the work going into this, hopefully the devs are getting nice donations. They seem to be doing a better job than Malus at getting games to run.

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  • Even the creators of languages don't know their own languages 100%. I wouldn't even call them the limit. So, I'm good enough in my main language that a lot of code doesn't surprise me. And I try very hard to write code that others can understand as well when in a team.

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  • Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it's time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

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  • You know, if they used the PR workflow with a CI that enforced standardised commit messages, this could be quite easily solved? Forcing everything through a mailing list seems to create more work for maintainers...

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  • Not sure I understand this. Is it a watch clippy? Or a completely new tool? If it's new, what does it provide over clippy?

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  • Your post is nearly the epitome of Chesterton's Fence. You don't seem to understand why Rust looks the way it does, works the way it does, why it exists, what it's used for, and what problems it solves, but you're very happy (or not, which is probably why you wrote this post) to trash it.

    There are many responses to your comments that explain things quite well, yet, from what I see, you do not seem to concentrate on those.

    And what I quoted is just the icing on top. It looks very much like you have one style of programming and approaching problems (the PHP style of "if it runs, it's good") and apply it to every problem. You have used a hammer your whole life and every problem looks like a nail. You can build a good many things with duct tape, nails, and a hammer. It might all do the job well enough for your standards or purposes and at times it might even be the perfect tool for a task.But now you've discovered a screw driver, tried to hammer in a nail, and gotten quite frustrated that it didn't work well. Instead of considering using a screw, you have tossed aside the screwdriver and decided to yell expletives into the ether.

    The ether has responded with explanations, but you have chosen to ignore them all and staunchly hold on to your "screwdrivers are shit" conclusion. Had you said "I'm just blowing off steam, don't take this seriously", that's what it would've been. However, you seem quite serious. Or, as I said before, you're just trolling.

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  • Oh but in rust you learn more about computers/low level concepts, you’re just not good at coding”

    Who cares? Coding is a tool to get shit done and I think devs forget this way too often, like if one works easier than the other why does learning lower level stuff matter?

    This is pure junior energy. Or trolling, I honestly can't tell.

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  • 56 characters is ridiculous 😂 We're not in the hole-punching era of computing. We have screens with resolutions that can easily fit 200-300 characters horizontally. My wraps across nearly everything are 100 characters.

    Even code at 80 characters I find a joke from the era of 80 character terminals forcing people to have variable names like mCar, pItm, ctx, ptc, hln, vln, l for list, m for map and so on. Sure, it fits in 80 characters, but you might as well be reading obfuscated code.

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  • They can hire? I thought they were in danger of getting wiped out by legal costs. Have charges been dropped?

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  • Oh great, thanks for the run down! That clears things up 👍

    It would be great I'd this got to a point where one could "just" buy any GPU without worrying about CUDA. Really amazing project.

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  • A pity they have to fight with Linux upstream to get any Rust in.

    Still, what an amazing project to reverse engineer such a hostile platform and make it even better than the original OS. Well done.

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  • I don't understand the history here. I thought AMD said "don't do it". Now there's funding from a third party to " just do it"?

    There were murmurs that NVIDIA had told AMD to stop funding the project, probably under threat of a lawsuit. Is this project not in a similar position again?

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  • Is zig memory safe by design? If not, rust will "win". Large companies aren't going to hire for an unknown or unpopular memory unsafe language when they already have C or C++ - there's just no contest.

    Last I read, zig didn't even have a standard string library. Unless that changes, it won't even be a viable alternative to C/C++.

    Edit: I checked and got this

    the Zig language, like C, entrusts memory management to humans, placing full trust in human development. Zig then provides some memory safety checks to ensure memory safety. However, it still lacks the strict compile-time guarantees of Rust’s ownership system and borrow checker. Therefore, when writing Zig code, developers need to pay more attention to potential memory safety issues and ensure that errors and exceptional situations are handled correctly.

    Rust Magazine

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  • We need a new license that requires payment if the use is commercial. One of the people involved in the coining of the term "open source" is already working on a licence, but maybe another one will be released earlier.

    Companies that freeload from open source now should be forced to pay up.

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