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I personally love watching the live coding sessions by Andrew Kelly, creator of Zig, regarding progress with the language/compiler. Archived videos available on Vimeo https://vimeo…

I personally use Setuptools (.py and .cfg) with pyproject.toml for the build settings. Last I used poetry was a couple of years ago, and IIRC it didn't gel well with Conda environm…

Well, the author did post the entire email thread (redacting information that may be proprietary) on Imgur. Personally, I think the Replit CEO could have explained what the specifi…

> Part of the function of time is to filter out the timeless from the merely timely This is such a beautiful observation. As a kid, I wasn't into "old" fantasy and scifi, but recen…

If you loved Tales Of Earthsea, you _must_ read the last book in the Earthsea Cycle: The Other Winds. It takes a very introspective approach to the notion of mortality and immortal…

I suffer from severe depression in general and social anxiety around more than a handful of people, and have talked to therapists regarding this. One huge benefit of therapy is tha…

I loved the DMT story, and I would love to know more about this Owl drawing tutorial you recommend. :F

In most cases, what you are looking for is a language server like `clangd` (works for most compilers) [1]. You can find a Language Server Protocol implementation for your editor at…

If the issue is with including transitive dependencies that are in your own codebase, then you should annotate the public interface header to the implementation details with IWYU P…

I've found that using IWYU Pragmas [1] for codebases you own and IWYU Mappings [2] for third-party libraries __almost__ entirely eliminates weird IWYU suggestions (there are a few …

While I agree with a lot of the points that the author is making (especially #5 regarding major labels feeding into the "viral hits" hype), I feel like the author is discrediting a…

I am not sure what you mean by "false abstractions" in this article. Could you cite some concrete examples in the article that support your claim? The author isn't claiming to go i…

As an ex-Sublime and ex-VSCode user, I realized that macros and Visual Block mode covers all my use cases for multicursor functionality.

Disclaimer: not a parent, but anecdotally curious as a child. Give them video games. Problem solving, and creative button mashing as a must if you want to be good at a game. Then s…

This is a great point. Personally, the only reason I would want to switch to Emacs is Org mode but the muscle memory for custom Vim and Tmux keymaps is hard to give up.

The Rust rewrite of Coreutils (this post essentially) _is_ meant to be a drop in replacement for GNU/Coreutils. OTOH, ripgrep and fd are not "drop-in replacements". Rather, they ar…

You have a valid point, but if the only formatting issue you will have is tabs, then running `zig fmt` on your codebase is pretty much a non-issue. If your project is small, just r…

I think the whole point of picking a language standard is to prevent the "space vs tabs" debate. Andrew is trying to standardize the language formatting issues, similar to tools li…

Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile.

I came here for an intelligent discussion on why this article seems like some sales/marketing nonsense, but stayed for the Reddit-like quips.

(On the phone so forgive the possible typos) I am not sure (1) is a very convincing argument. The subtraction of 1 internally is not necessarily gonna be there once the code gets c…

> Does anyone know if the Rust community has ever done anything original, though? Depends on what you call "original". Is the Servo layout engine _not_ original because layout engi…

To me, it doesn't seem like it is LLVM doing the heavy-lifting as much as Docker/Podman (which are used through Cross). Maybe I am missing something... I definitely agree with you …

I am not sure if you read the article in it's entirety. The author's point is the exact opposite: while Ubisoft developers are ok with burning churches (which magically restore the…

This is sooo true. I realized that there are actually some subreddits that are well moderated, and toxic stuff is quickly removed. I also made it a point to stop browsing Reddit at…