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Reminder that neovim is completely free, you can modify the editor using Lua, it has a renaissance of new awesome plugins, LSP support for the official Rust LSP server, and as a sy…

Long term I think bootc containers will win the war. It has better backing and the weight of Podman behind it. Sysext will likely play a role, but I think flatcar is a losing horse…

The grass is always greener. Rust also has rough edges and there's maybe a fraction of a fraction of a percent of Rust code out there to work on in the corpus of systems software, …

I primary write Rust/C for a living, but I would pick Go in any situation if I could. I understand Rust's appeal as a shiny spaceship, but it adds a lot of complication for not eno…

I don't think the onus is on the original project to maintain compatibility with a fork. Neovim made it pretty clear from the beginning that they were going to fracture the ecosyst…

And forks diverge... in the case of neovim by tens of thousands of LoC. In what way is forking a stable product a guarantee that the fork will remain stable?

I use default vim, I believe it was a mistake to fracture the ecosystem with plugins that can only be used with neovim. I have also not found any neovim functionality that sells ne…

I've had one vanilla vim breakage in over a decade of use. A common pattern I see that inhibits vim usage is: - Using too many plugins without understanding all that vim has to off…

I'm not sure what company you're working for where generating code that may or may not be correct and needs careful analysis is somehow increasing your coding velocity to the point…

I never said anything about AI development.

Being cautious in order to keep one's IP and job safe during an economic downturn isn't shortsighted, it's playing the long game. AI isn't going anywhere, and waiting and seeing ho…

Just want to say that I'm not going to touch any AI tools until the legalities are ironed out, and I absolutely won't be using it at work without very clear approval. AI poses a hu…

This is why I stick to a terminal based editor. You can use it practically anywhere with minimal resource usage. You can use it remotely so any machine is your workstation. You can…

The Makefile one is important. Make is still the best tool for managing a dependency graph, adding project commands, building artifacts of any kind, whether it be building docker i…

Complexity is where bugs hide. Do you really think Rust protects you from every class of bugs? It doesn't even protect you from all memory bugs.

I've saved most of this thread so that I can link it when someone asks me why I don't use Rust for systems development yet. In some ways Rust is worse than C++ with these completel…

I've worked on a lot of large and complex projects (mostly kernels) using just vim, git, gdb, cscope, and ctags for development for the past 15 years. I think I've encountered mayb…

This is definitely just an ad for ergomake, there's barely any networking knowledge here at all.

The problem is that system libraries DO solve a problem that docker recreates - the kernel can efficiently map in a virtual address range for shared libraries and then add the map …

It’s literally OCI compatible, integrates with systemd and LSM, and runs rootless by default. Podman is 100000% better designed on the inside with the same interface on the outside…

At this point I stay far away from anything Docker Inc. Podman already has an architecture that makes way more sense on Linux. There are plenty of free alternatives for image regis…

I’m confused… you’re talking about avoid a local copy of sparse regions… Linux already does that at the level of the inode. There’s also a seek operation to move past the next hole…

If you want to smash rocks, go smash rocks. I'm not against people who want to use emacs, or org mode, or ed and keep it to themselves. I am against people making bold faced claims…

It's not you, a system like org mode that allows a user to be terribly bad is a failed system. It's a productivity system that makes you unproductive. It's the kind of yak shaving …

Again, you are living in the past. - I can share a note with my wife and kids and they can live edit together. - I can encrypt my notes and share them across the cloud. - I can sen…