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> lipstick on a pig Yes!! > dancing around the core issue that `foo.exe` cannot ever realize `foobar-v1.8` and `foobar-v1.7` are both installed on the same computer I’m curious if …

My gut feeling is that Nix is just not quite the right abstraction level. I can’t quite articulate this. And hell maybe I’m wrong. I don’t want to configure a global environment. I…

Whoa. So is Jeff effectively leaving Google to work on this new venture full time? Or is the venture a side project? It sounds like the former. I’m sure he’ll still have internal a…

Step 1. Start with a library that is a fat wrapper around a massive C++ library that does all the hard work Step 2. Rewrite only the wrapper using already written tests. Step 3. Ge…

As a former gamedev watching non-gamedev AI talk about games is so amusing. They really truly do not understand anything about games or consumer entertainment. There’s a reason AI …

Definitely a missing piece in the ecosystem. Happy to hear it will have first class support for web or GUI. tmux but with sane UX/controls being usable by non-vim binding people is…

That’s just another way of saying “updating a BVH is expensive therefore spend effort to minimize the amount of updating it”. The fastest code is the code that never runs.

> Bazel uses npm/cargo/pip in most people's usage of these tools! Oh interesting. Buck totally replaces cargo / pip. I think the JS story is a little messier. Not sure as I try my …

Ah interesting, thanks. My intuition is that npm, cargo, zig build etc are all “wrong”. And that Bazel/Buck are architecturally correct. Build systems should be polyglot by default…

Updating a BVH is expensive. Lots of work. Generally speaking acceleration structures like this are “do one large expensive computation upfront and then re-use the results”. And th…

> classic problem we have in Bazel land Can you tell me more about this? I’ve never used Bazel. I have used Buck extensively. But have never used either in an open source context.

They’ll be fine? Dang I wanna be “fine”!

That’s a research project. So no.

Huh? Terabytes of assets is small scale by AAA standards. Alienbrain has very minimal usage in comparison to perforce. Very minimal.

auto-vectorization is not nearly as good as you would hope it to be. The best SIMD optimizations likely require changing your data format from AoS to SoA.

This is all true. But it’s still a counter-example to “once cameras go up all trust is lost”. Clearly cameras are not the sole issue that makes trust achievable. As demonstrated by…

It’s interesting that Bun was a human rewrite from Go to Zig. (I think?). Then rewritten from Zig to Rust. AI is pretty good at rewrites and ports. Quite good infact.

> However, I continue to be amazed that Perforce survived Git. Virtually 100% of non-indie devs use Perforce. Is Perforce good? Ehhh not really. It’s been stagnant for 15 years. Is…

Nice post. Thanks for sharing.

Ehh. Cargo has build.rs but calling that a polyglot build system is like calling bash scripts a polyglot build system. Buck and Bazel have the right architecture. Just need a versi…

> the problem is that you need a compiler capable of compiling said zig, python, rust no! No you do not!! It’s perfectly totally fine to have multiple different compilers. Literall…

compilers and build systems are and should be different. A good polyglot build system should support llvm and zig and python and literally any toolchain under the sun.

The world has yet to standardize on a good crossplatform polyglot build system. The only real such build systems are Buck and Bazel. But they have way too much baggage from their o…

> one of Seems reasonably accurate? Odin is not particularly popular. Zig is much much more popular. As-is Go, although that’s not a straight C competitor. But other than that? Odi…

Costco is way too damn crowded. There needs to be 2x or 3x the number of stores. It is a great deal. But an utterly miserable shopping experience.