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That's a hell of a lot more than "basic extrapolation." You're misrepresenting the original claim to fight against one that's trivially easy to dispute. "Bun has had an extremely h…

> Is your claim that using Zig ends in an "extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs?" Wouldn't that mean that it isn't even feasible to make high-quality software with such a t…

i don't think it's that "wild". sure, i'm not so cynical as to feel hn's become a nazi bar or anything, but i am willing to recognize that some of the incidents i've witnessed coul…

you're free to have your own opinion based on your experiences here, but i wouldn't blame anyone for feeling that way. for the record, i don't think dang or anybody is a transphobe…

you are literally on hackernews

don't see why they would care to put out docs on it considering macos doesn't even permit kexts anymore, there'd be no gpu drivers anyways. i figured it was obvious we're talking i…

name 3 things using tinygrad that's not openpilot

> You cannot even use Nvidia/AMD/Intel DGPUs with AS Macs afaik you technically can, except that m1/m2 force pcie bars to be mapped as device memory (forbids unaligned r/w), so mos…

I understand what you meant (but note that allocating an Rc isn’t necessary; &RefCell would work just fine). I just didn’t see the “subtle linguistic distinctions” - and still don’…

> Runtime borrow checking: RefCell and Rc . Can give other examples, but admittedly they need `unsafe` blocks. Where are the “subtle linguistic distinctions”? These types do two co…

imo if you're sprinkling around `unsafe` in your codebase "liberally", you're holding it wrong. In general it's really not that hard to encapsulate most unsafety into a wide-contra…

Glancing at the Cargo.toml, the package doesn't define any features anyways. `cargo b --no-default-features` only applies to the packages you're building, not their dependencies --…

Neat, looks like a combination of erdtree[0] and broot[1]. I use both on a daily basis, are there any features that stand out from the two? [0]: https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtr…

You've managed to miss the entire point of using a union: the value is either a success payload or an error value, never both. You can't encode that mutual exclusivity if you retur…

I don't know that there's whining about "having to handle errors" in principle, it's pretty clearly a complaint with the syntax and semantics of doing so Some languages even make o…

Codex-like agents are cool but as someone with even just a passing interest in compilers I absolutely hate this attempt at appropriating the word "codegen"

?? the whole point of Box is to be an owning reference, you can’t have multiple children refer to the same parent object if you use a Box

I don't necessarily disagree with the overall point, but I'm sad the article misses the big advantage to the sum-type solution. It is not just about "being able to collapse `res, e…

This announcement was only added to the README in early October[1]. In the meantime you can of course compile it yourself/grab a build from GH actions. I'm sure they would apprecia…