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What I'd like to see is a memory safe JS interpreter (no JIT) - yes, it will be slow, but 90% of websites don't need JS go that fast, but JIT opens up a security can of worms. So i…

>Actually solving a constraint graph is an NP-hard problem How big of a deal is this IRL? Assuming you have 1000 modules, how long should it take to solve the graph?

Are you sure? While its open source, your phone won't be (since the OS is MIT licensed, your OEM won't have to give you anything ). Can you build a custom ROM without kernel source…

>Personally I think we’ll see Red Hat getting acquired in the next 5 years, It would be interesting to see what would happen with linux after that, as they are one of the biggest (…

What happened there? In the 80s they were the next big thing. Then they finished their OS project (when the Linux kernel became available they finally had a FLOSS OS). But they nev…

>Rewrite popular BSD-licensed software as GPLv3? What do they rewrite? To the best of my knowledge, they have no problem using BSD licensed software, they just won't develop BSD li…

Just wondering how he must feel now!

Why is gnome still the de-facto default DM? Is it just that gnome 2 was great, so gnome 3 (despite practically a new project with a new goal) inherited that position? And not just …

It's because the language was made to compile to JS, and competition to JS, so appropriate tradeoffs were made. For example: 1. JS is single-threaded, with extremely heavy threads …

Or languages that compile to JS (like TypeScript). Maybe one day we'll get languages compiling to Dart[1]. [1]. Although it'll be a pity. JS is stuck as a compilation target becaus…

The thing is that the longer you wait, the harder it will be to migrate, as the codebase size grows (and once you leave beta, people assume that the language is finalized and won't…

Unfortunately, I kind of feel torn: On one hand, I love flutter as a concept[1]. It removes a lot of the baroque from mobile development (no need for the whole RecyclerViewer const…

>As the oxidize projects continue to land this email will become more and more obsolete. There's simply no way for C++ to compete with Rust, Not everything is fixable with rust. JS…

In my mind, mainframes are associated with either: 1. Old software 2. Large not-tech companies who outsource their IT department. Do any modern tech companies actually migrate to m…

FFI is actually quite bad. You can't talk to native (C, C++, Go, Rust) code directly. You have to talk to Java, and if you need, from Java to Native. You also communicate to Java t…

The secret ingredient is cash.

>If they'd named it sfo07s13-in-f14.google.com, then browsing to that URL sends google cookies. If it's some server from a recent acquisition that may not be up to Google's level o…

Better than than silently ignoring an if guard preventing an overflow, and then overflowing anyways on addition.

>It's undefined because in the majority of situations, it is the result of a bug, 1. If it's a bug, it should overflow or crash (implementation defined, not undefined), or do what …

The real issue isn't that C doesn't have a standard int overflow, but that it's undefined. What they could have done is made it implementation defined , like sizeof(int), which dep…

How does it feel having your "life's work"[1] becoming big enough to be noticed, but ignored by the mainstream? You created the first "better C" out there to get any traction, it h…

>Vi is on every unix system Except Debian's install CD. They only have nano.

>Last year, afer a firejail local root exploit got released Is it worse than running Firefox without firejail?