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Have you ever learned a language? Because that's what it is for a very large percentage of people.

Which is why the Soviet government used “ultraviolet baths” to make sure that children up North got their vitamin D. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/photo/ul...…

There's always ReactOS[1], a project for a bug-for-bug compatible Windows clone. It used to mostly aim at Windows 9x compatibility the last time I'd checked, though, but that could…

Thank you, rsc, for all your work. Development in Go has become much more enjoyable in these 12 years: race detector, standardized error wrapping, modules, generics, toolchain upda…

Source on the reasons, from the editor: https://pony.social/@thephd/112791335889843647 .

If I recall correctly, ProtoBuf has a reflection layer, and it's probably using that.

Re. bad tooling. grpcurl[1] is irreplaceable when working with gRPC APIs. It allows you to make requests even if you don't have the .proto around. [1]: https://github.com/fullstory…

> While the compiled programs stayed the same, we no longer get a warning (even with -Wall), even though both compilers can easily work out statically (e.g. via constant folding) t…

Ah, so extremely localized uses of pointers, got it, thanks.

That could be true, but I've done a few optimizations of allocations in Go code, and I don't recall pointers to stack values ever being optimized (unless the entire branch is remov…

Whenever you do: v := interfaceType(concreteTypeValue) in Go, what you're actually doing on a lower level is: dataPtr := &concreteTypeValue typePtr := typeData[concreteType]() v :=…

To be fair, if that's what you need ProtoBuf isn't the only option. Cap'n Proto[1], JSON Schema[2], or any other well supported message-definition language could probably achieve t…

There is a proposal to get this using the "defer" keyword into either the next C revision or the one after that[1]. [1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3199.htm …

Privilege separation[1], most likely. If your system needs to do three things, it could either just do all of them using a single executable requiring all three permissions (thus a…

This makes me thing of the stories I've heard stories from those who lived in communal apartments back in the U.S.S.R. days. Couples who had a creaking bed and wanted to go at it a…

Why the quotation marks? If I recall correctly, Vala compiles (by way of C) into native code.

IPv6, too. (Unless you also need interface IDs for link-local addresses.)

On a related note, have there ever been extensions for PosgreSQL/SQLite/any other FOSS DBMS that would allow using Tutorial D[1] (the Third-Manifesto one, not to be confused with W…

A feature that combines well with range and enum types are typed indexes of arrays: TYPE TWeekday = (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday); VAR WeekdayNam…

Re. the shape of the code, it's probably a matter of habit, as I have the complete opposite experience reading code in languages with exceptions. That is, I find that there is too …

Funny you mention Go, because it's my main language these days. And I have to be honest, I don't have the issues you're mentioning. 99 % of loops in the code I review is the plain …