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dequan

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    Comment #40980392

    The cranelift backend itself has a JIT mode.

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    Comment #40788470

    100% agreed. Thank you for your work on ntpd-rs!

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    Comment #40783061

    I agree that it would be great if the ecosystem was a bit slower to use every new version and it does seem like things are beginning to tend in that direction as many foundational …

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    Comment #40782518

    What an interesting coincidence that all three of these accounts were created within 15 minutes of each other. I'm sure all "three" users are being "intellectually honest" here.

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    Comment #40782495

    All of a sudden? They've been unsafe for decades, it's just that you had less of a choice then.

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    Comment #40534443

    Garbage collection seems like a significant no-go for many safety critical systems. Other oddities like 31 and 63 bit numbers probably aren't a big deal but are still weird. "Matur…

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    Comment #39495071

    "outdated article" the commit tested is 3 months old. This is a standard V community tactic: all negative feedback is "bashing", anything older than a week is "outdated", anything …

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    Comment #39006988

    I think you've missed my point entirely but that's fine.

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    Comment #39003009

    Not really. The lack of fields in traits or a classical inheritance system is pretty strongly missed by some people coming from C++.

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    Comment #39002889

    Which doesn't really have anything to do with GP's incorrect assertion that C# is somehow safer than Rust.

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    Comment #39001958

    Hmm? Dotnet on Linux uses LLVM for codegen so that seems to be a wash. Lots of nuget packages are wrappers around native libraries as well.

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    Comment #38997423

    The "link" is just the repos rather than asking AI to hallucinate an answer. Rust's repo contains 2.2M LOC. The dotnet runtime contains 1.5M lines of C++. Now if we remove in tree …

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    Comment #38995734

    The entire JIT, garbage collector and most of the C#'s VM are all implemented in C++. This has caused various issues in the past which are exploitable from managed code. The amount…

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    Comment #38993220

    That's not really accurate. Ojeda is a long time kernel contributor and so are many of the folks writing drivers. Maintainers of various subsystems are also particularly interested…

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    Comment #38993145

    Nonsense, WG21 is committed to ensuring C++ has more warts and sharp edges than any other language on the planet.

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    Comment #38993023

    C# is not more safe than Rust is and falls to prevent null pointer exceptions and modified collection exceptions.

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    Comment #38992605

    I don't find it particularly surprising. D uses a garbage collector while C, C++ and Rust do not. D's GC can be disabled but that isn't that useful when most D code including the s…

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    Comment #38295537

    Apple themselves no longer support the new minimum supported macOS and iOS versions and haven't for years. The fundamental issue is testing, how do you acquire test environments th…

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    Comment #36675731

    I thought V has a backwards compatibility guarantee as of 3 years ago so you don't have to rewrite your programs? https://github.com/vlang/v/commit/ba38c94a403b72222508a85704...