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> From all state actions I’ve seen for a decade straight in the crypto space, this largely seems to be an education issue that makes the state’s ability to prosecute a brief privil…

> Apple seems to have lost its academic roots, and suffers for it now. Or I should say, its customers suffer while it grosses almost half a trillion dollars per year. At least with…

You can run arbitrary computations on iOS devices if they're written in JavaScript, WebAssembly, or Swift (via Playgrounds). All of these are Turing complete, and all three compile…

Sure, but the relevant comparison isn't between languages: it's between a state-of-the-art JIT implementation of one language and a likewise-state-of-the-art AOT implementation of …

I believe HotSpot is usually faster than GCJ.

Mathematically, what you want to do here is to calculate the area of the pixel square (or circle; however you want to approximate it) that the shape covers. In this case a linear r…

Your note taking app doesn't need AI, but it also doesn't need OLE, which represented an equally hot buzzword ("software componentry") of the 90s that Microsoft was trying to shoeh…

jcranmer is correct and pointer provenance-related issues are not "boxed and contained". Start here: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html

My recollection is that Brian Anderson, who came from the C# world, was an early advocate of the easily-googlable error codes that Microsoft compilers use a lot, and pushed to get …

When I was first developing early versions of rustc I was really fascinated with Clang's effort at good error messages, which was helping it gain traction vs. GCC at the time, and …

The modal urbanist who lives in the suburbs is usually just someone who wants to be able to have the lifestyle they want without a commute to work. Someone who works at Google in M…

But urbanists do live in cities? San Francisco proper is, like, the origin of the YIMBY movement. Searching for "baltimore yimby" on Google brings up a lot of advocacy, like this: …

Yes, all Rust papers anyone tried to submit were consistently rejected up until Rust became popular, at which point Rust became the hot new thing in applied programming language re…

You can raise the cost of cheating so that cheating kids will get annoyed and go cheat in some other game or scroll TikTok or whatever. We're not exactly dealing with nation-states…

Yeah, sorry, my mistake. GitHub did report on the SO survey [1], which probably led to my mixup. Anyway, Rust was still the "most admired" language in 2024 [2]. [1]: https://github…

Yes, you have correctly pointed out that there are some developers who are unhappy with Rust. I don't really care to have an argument as to whether "Rust has peaked" or not. Rust i…

I'm happy to revise what I said from "Rust keeps winning" to "Rust continually won" if you want to nitpick my choice of verb tenses. It refutes the idea that the "developer joy is …

Because "else" technically includes "comptime_float", so that case is handled, just not in the way that's expected. One of the downsides of comptime over generics is that, because …

https://github.blog/developer-skills/programming-languages-a...

> Rust is still popular but it turns out the developer joy is pretty low. I mean, Rust keeps winning the "most loved" language contest on GitHub, so it seems someone likes it.

This is a good point. Zig is practically optimized for this: comptime is extremely dynamically typed compared to actual generics, and the lack of memory safety is often "a breath o…

> It's not a great hobby language but it is a fantastic professional language, I never thought I'd live to see the day when someone would say this. The first 5 years of Rust were a…

If Microsoft had adopted this attitude, then by now Excel's market share would probably be 0% and Google Sheets' would be 100%. Microsoft doesn't add features because they like blo…

Over the past year I've been working at my studio to add enough features to Bevy to ship real apps, and Bevy is at the point where one can reasonably do that, depending on your nee…