oscargrouch

7 ms·

1.
by oscargrouch 8mo ago
> Together with the author's distaste for Rust As someone who understand the sentiment, I wouldn't call it distaste for Rust. It feels more as Rust not being the right tool for the job and to be honest I have the same feeling h
2.
by oscargrouch 10mo ago
Well if anything take as a compliment. As a C, C++ (and some Rust) who lately is enjoying Zig, I think Zig is the only programming language positioned to convince system programming die hard C programmers to use another programming language
3.
by oscargrouch 10mo ago
We are in the "system engineering territory" and as such it might have more to do with the way the runtime is designed and how the javascript native runtime does things than the compiler optimizations. You have to measure syscalls
4.
by oscargrouch 10mo ago
My take on this as someone that professionally coded in C, C++, Go, Rust, Python (and former darlings of the past) is that Zig gives you the sort of control that C does with enough niceties as to not break into other idioms like C++ and Rus
5.
by oscargrouch 2y ago
I worked on something in this space[1], using a heavily modified Chrome browser years ago, but I consider I was too early and I bet something in this lines (probably simpler) will take off when the time is right. Unfortunately I got a littl
6.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
I like your comment because it really make the root point here more evident.. Different strategies with different outcomes, it's hard to compare anything against the US which is an outlier, but there are some connections between tech a
7.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
One of the reasons films are popular is by reinforcing a pavlovian behavior, where the movie industry learn what people like to see and give them that in return in a formulaic manner. It works like a self-fulfilling prophecy, so once the fo
8.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
Watching pre-code hollywood you can see how the movies from the US from that era were not far away from the european movies in terms of brightness. Once i knew about this i understood why most of the hollywood movies turned out into the bra
9.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
FreeBSD have a lower memory footprint and their network (now together with their filesystem) make it a better server than Linux if you want a better use of your network bandwidth. I love FreeBSD and would prefer to use it as my desktop inst
10.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
Now that you are saying this.. take a look everywhere, it's all like this.. every country turned into the worst versions of themselves, but even the worst of UK its kind of not bad in my opinion, compared to other countries. At least f
11.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
it just took me to scroll down on this same thread to find one sample > * 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [–] > Rust will quickly replace C in the kernel, I have no doubt about it I've have seen tons of such a comment in all
12.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
> You are fighting an imaginary opponent. Yes, i'm sure there's an imaginary opponent downvoting my comment. Also there's a lot into my comment, and people are not even noticing it in the whole context. If there's no
13.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
Your example is quite funny and also represents how i would approach the matter of becoming a linux kernel developer. Even if C is not my primary language of choice, i would definitely try adapt myself to the ecosystem and not the other way
14.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
i was born in a city near a german colony in the south of Brazil where a lot of germans from the 20's, 30's and later 40's arrived (which is unusual giving german colonies in Brazil are mostly from people of the late 1800&#x2
15.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
I think Gemini will have people following it and developing for it, but i think it could have been a little more ambitious and also took tech history a little bit more serious as to not take too much out of what is actually a improvement do
16.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
I guess its all coming down to mnemonics, aiding our memories and communicating. Sure this is the "state of the art", but despite the fact that pure language notations might be even worse, i cant help to think that people thinking
17.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
> The point is that a lot of sites out there don't need anything more than the web tech of 2 decades ago. With more people being aware of that and using browsers like this, the Google monopoly may weaken. I always thought this was a
18.
by oscargrouch 4y ago
The problem is: who's gonna use it? Sure, it's good to have more options but, the deploy base of browsers like Chrome are massive and IE6 only lost its position by being careless and stop evolving (and lets not forget it took year
19.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
I've have a answer to this same thread specifying something i'm working on, so in case you are curious, you can have more info by reading the details i gave in the other answer, and the way to solve this problem is through indirec
20.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
I've built something akin to this, but with the idea of applications distributing API`s where the databases are also torrented but working behind the api's, so that developers can build basically anything. In my case i've imp
21.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
With COVID and the rise of remote working there are a whole lot of companies where the developers are the asset, the commodity, where those companies are just the middle-man receiving for the work the developers do and getting the big part
22.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
Is RT Linux a good (or at least a good enough) option for realtime OS's compared to others who where designed as RT kernels from the start?
23.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
It's there. For instance if you want to retain a reference to a 'WebFrame' for instance, you can create a wrapper object which is the one you directly control the lifetime and have a 'Persistent<WebFrame>' as
24.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
Foe anyone interested, there was a port of Webkit/Blink where the web objects retained by javascript are garbage collected outside of V8, using blink GC to destroy those objects. The way it works its through smart pointers, where for i
25.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
> I feel like this would enable a more sensible choice: I have a working solution for something like this that is based on Chrome https://github.com/mumba-org/mumba The applications developers publish native, Swift
26.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
I can relate to a lot of things he said, but one thing i used to pass through that was to dedicate myself to a bigger goal. I've started a side project that took me some years (at least 4), a lot of perseverance, because there are a bu
27.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
Just as a matter of research giving your background: Would you like/consider to use C++ but with the web as the UI/presentation layer? No javascript, no WebAssembly. Just pure C++ talking nativelly with the web layer.. Im working
28.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
Yes, it can even serve to expose the others WebRTC api's that are meant for media, where you can have a initial RPC booststrap interface, that will call your application service, that in turns its programmed by you to use the WebRTC ap
29.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
> Good luck with this, I've been reading all the various HN posts on this topic and you seem to be the closest to the holy grail. Thanks, its nice to hear that after all those years working on it and keep going by understanding how
30.
by oscargrouch 5y ago
>That's interesting. Are you aware of the absurd-sql project? No, thanks for pointing that out, will take a look into it. > Also, how do peers find each other? The idea is to use the torrents as a common shareable resource where

More ›