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The article doesn't discuss one of the most significant differences between building in Go and Rust: tooling.

> Tools that use the GOPROXY protocol as a crutch What does the article mean that using the Go proxy protocol is a crutch?

This quote had me too. Too real.

Go downloading a toolchain is not any different to dustup downloading the version of rust that is in a toolchain toml file. At least with Go it will presumably only download offici…

Continuing to work on the soroban-sdk[1] and soroban wasm environment[2], but after spending last year completely immersed in Rust, which was exhilarating learning experience, I'm …

Some prior discussion about why turn on TCP_NODELAY: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-... John Nagle's comments about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

In several places it is mentioned as a Rust library, but I don't see any links to it. Using google search I'm not finding a Rust library named "Turbo". Is the library open source, …

No port mapping, the ports are available on the IP of the VM. Volume mounts are supported by multipass, but dockerhost doesn't set them up automatically, yet!

Rancher's, and Podman's, efforts on Mac are exciting, but you can also just run the Docker daemon in a VM on Mac and install the free docker CLI using homebrew. This is what I do u…

Stellar Development Foundation | Non-Profit | San Francisco, Remote (US, Canada) | Engineering Stellar is an open network for storing and moving money. The Stellar Development Foun…

+100 Go is super boring and that it's a selling point. Code is a tool, not a device for entertainment. I'm yet to meet a 20+year developer who is wowed by extensive/unique/complex …

Australia has very little immigration to the US it seems.

I added unicode and emoji for fun which is where the YAGNI reference came from. I doubt many websites accept them, even Google don't. But you're welcome to give it a go: randstr -c…

I've been learning go and this is my first CLI app. There's definitely some YAGNI in this.. cough emoji cough ..but supporting unicode/emoji led me to expressing the charsets as an…

Here's my process: 1. Open a PR when you're ready for review. The PR should have the following attributes, which make PRs fast to review, and reduces the back and forth since the r…