Wow, I did not know that still runs in 32 bit. Damn, Valve should really get on that 😅

Does it affect you somehow? I don’t know anyone still running 32-bit systems.

I think I read somewhere that part of the motivation is that they won’t need a runtime to be installed to use it, but Go could fill that role as well of course.

But I think you said it yourself:

I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs

I guess they also prefer Rust to Go. I’d choose Rust over go for a CLI any day. Why do you say Rust wouldn’t be good in an “industrial setting”? I use Rust professionally and I don’t see any problems in that setting.

I’m a fan of Linux Libertine. Very nice serif font.

For monospace, Inconsolata.

Sans serif… I’m honestly not sure. Haven’t found any that particularly stand out I suppose.

Long but a very good blog post. I largely agree with all the conclusions and similarly wish Rust would go in a better direction with regards to certain features, especially compile-time reflection.

I also sadly agree with the comments on the Rust leadership. My personal experience with contributing to Rust has not been great, though I haven’t tried very hard (but exactly because the initial feeling was not great).

I’d recommend switching away from Rocket if you can. It is not very actively maintained and Axum has become the better choice.

I mean if you truly intend to stay in a country for many years, shouldn’t you learn the language? Also just for your own sake.

Denmark seems to fit fairly well and there are some English-only jobs in Copenhagen. I have a lot of colleagues that don’t speak Danish.

At this point, it seems like a major existential risk for the internet archive to be based in the US.

no global admins, and no way shut down communities-meaning true censorship resistance.

“True censorship resistance” is not a desirable property. No normal user wants to deal with moderation. You need to have a structure for delegating moderation and such tasks to other people.

Not sure about that one but the following one:

In each language, the words for yes and no never change, regardless of which question they are answering.

This happens in Danish actually. Example:

Kan du lide is? (Do you like ice cream?)
Ja
Kan du ikke lide is? (Do you not like ice cream?)
Jo

So in Danish we have “ja” which means “yes” but “jo” is used instead when answering a negative question, so as to confirm what the negative question asked. This is kind of annoying in English cause if you ask “Do you not like ice cream?” then if you say “yes” does that mean “yes I like ice cream” or does it mean “yes I do not like ice cream”? That’s what “jo” disambiguates.

It’s definitely not a problem in my own projects, but at work is a different story. With a huge project, compile times becomes a real slog.

Definitely useful and I think it compares pretty well to other tooling? My two biggest issues are compile times and “amnesia”. First of all, compile times because the feedback cycle can get really bad. But that’s not really rust-analyzer’s fault, that’s cargo/rustc.

But rust-analyzer also has this weird “amnesia”. Like if I have ran the checks and everything is good, I can go to definition and it will instantly bring me there. But if I make a small change and it starts running cargo check, it’s like it forgets everything until it’s done with cargo check. I wish it still allowed me to use what it knew before and go to definitions and give suggestions and such.

dozens of GB of disk use by Rust

I was well above 100GB the other day 😅. But I think there’s a problem with the setup as well

Tbf less than 15% said it was a problem and the others is either “it’s good” or “could be better”. I definitely still have a few grievances with rust-analyzer, it could be better.

Damn! If only someone could’ve predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s

Think you would need Movie { title: "Star Wars".to_owned(), .. }, the .. is mandatory.

Hmmm… I guess I don’t see why not?

Such a gem of a movie

One more vote for using WASM. Using WASM has the benefit of allowing the user to use almost whatever language they want, as long as it can compile to WASM. So the user doesn’t have to learn some bespoke scripting-specific language.