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by chiffaa 27d ago
> we should be taking a more “batteries included” approach to language and library design. Okay, but how do we decide which approach to a problem should be standardised? Rust's approach of "provide a minimal core to build libra
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by chiffaa 1mo ago
I wouldn't really say DeltaDB is a showcase project, given Zed has been working on it for at least a year, so it's likely been a focal point of development for quite some time. If there is funding to secure, they either should&#x2
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by chiffaa 2mo ago
Lem can also render via ncurses, which works fairly fine if you don't need mouse support. It used to also have an SDL2 frontend, but it was deprecated for reasons I don't remember
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by chiffaa 2mo ago
The compatibility layer mention is valid for many projects, and I personally greatly appreciate that it exists, even if it's a bit buggy osu! however, is only officially distributed on Linux via AppImage (and semi-officially via Flatpa
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by chiffaa 2mo ago
osu! has spent a lot of time trying to switch from SDL2 to SDL3, but due to their high platform coverage (all three major desktop OSes + iOS and Android) and an attempt to keep all functionality native (so properly working Wayland supporr
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by chiffaa 4mo ago
That's mostly because BEAM uses an actor-style approach while predating the concept of actors, isn't it? Interesting artefact of history if so Edit: upon rechecking, apparently that's not exactly right, and Erlang designers l
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by chiffaa 4mo ago
Unsafe code can break certain invariants of Rust, as `unsafe` is just a compiler "hold my beer" flag, which is why you're meant to do safety checks in your safe interface around unsafe code. If the unsafe code is wrapped in a
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
Google people were specifically talking about memory safety. Logic bugs happen. All of the issues in TFA are effectively logic bugs or POSIX stuff, which is a different category entirely that Rust never claimed to solve
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
Few things to note 1. uutils as a project started back in 2013 as a way to learn Rust, by no means by knowledgeable developers or in a mature language 2. uutils didn't even have a consideration to become a replacement of GNU Coreutils
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
I wanted to avoid Emacs so I discovered Lem (so now I live in a different Emacs when writing CL), so it's not always this way
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
Very tangentially related comment, but I remember seeing a post on a local Facebook clone with a prompt to throw at Claude to "make a custom YouTube downloader for MacOS", so the general "Here is a prompt to feed an LLM"
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
A lot of software projects have names ranging from silly associations to very cheesy puns, and IMO this should never discourage anyone - everyone should have some whimsy when naming things, because it makes names more memorable. After all,
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
Please note that I explicitly said "past year 2". I believe the first two years were fairly decent, especially those who had worse basics than mine (not that mine were that good). Notes (because the reply might sound weird without
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by chiffaa 5mo ago
I am in my final year of my bachelors in Software Engineering. I was (mostly still am) very interested in both SWE and CS in various angles - I studied a decent bit of PL theory, I tried to get into systems programming, I've built a bu
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by chiffaa 6mo ago
Oh, then I misremembered and misunderstood the note, my apologies On that note, thank you for all your work!
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by chiffaa 6mo ago
You can't cut down a language without breaking changes. And there fairly often are internal changes to simplify the compiler and the tooling. Just in the latest release, annotation internals were finally fully unified between rustc, ca
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by chiffaa 6mo ago
There are ways to handle these effects without bloating up normal applications. For example, using attributes implemented as intrinsics, which wouldn't really affect anything that isn't using them. The thing is, some of these thin
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by chiffaa 7mo ago
> What I need is an emacs with more lisp and less javascript Lem[0] in ncurses mode might be your friend. Unfortunately the BDFL deprecated the SDL frontend seemingly due to the SDL3 breakages, but the web one uses webview + a homegrown
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by chiffaa 7mo ago
From this perspective - not sure, to be honest. For me an important factor was that Zed is getting way more love from its devs than my old editor of choice Helix. But also not being constrained to a cell grid is very nice in terms of readab
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by chiffaa 7mo ago
A lot of people use VSCode. Zed's value proposition is being basically that but with fully native code, so without the madness that is Electron. If you're not a fan of this kind of tooling, it's totally fine, but many people
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by chiffaa 7mo ago
I believe latest Iced versions do have a `Lazy` widget wrapper, but I believe that effectively means you need to make your own virtual list on top of it
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by chiffaa 9mo ago
After using projects named like "slurp", "eww" (combined with "yuck"), "yay", "honkers railway", "jason" and many many others, I personally kind of gave up on any attempts to judge
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
A funny workaround I employed is running Beeper. It's a Matrix client that also provides chat mirroring for other platforms. The sync is slightly jank but it works for what I want to achieve The mirroring stuff is FOSS and I think so i
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
osu! is probably the longest running financially successful game with a fully FOSS modern core (though a proprietary legacy core). And there are many other smaller projects that have seen plenty of success. There are also a lot of mods that
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
Rust has 3 "platform support" tiers (effectively - guaranteed to work, guaranteed to build, supposed to work). However, these are (obviously) defined only for some of the target triples. This project defines "Tier-4" (wh
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
> who in the fuck would write a garbage collector using garbage collected Rust? Rust is not garbage collected unless you explicitly opt into using Rc/Arc
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
In one of the interviews that came out when the Steam Machine embargo ended, someone from Valve said that, unlike with Steam Deck, they can't afford to sell at a loss because the form factor and the OS of the Machine make it possible t
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by chiffaa 10mo ago
It's not exactly what you're looking for but you might be interested in Lem[0]. It's an emacs-style editor but written completely in Common Lisp on top of curses/SDL2. I haven't used it that much (same for Emacs its
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by chiffaa 11mo ago
look into Cosmic Desktop and SniffNet as examples, both use Iced and IME are very high quality
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by chiffaa 11mo ago
Their README claims the following > Whenever bat detects a non-interactive terminal (i.e. when you pipe into another process or into a file), bat will act as a drop-in replacement for cat and fall back to printing the plain file contents

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