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Alright I’ll bite. Why do harnesses require so much code?

I care more about hiding AI related articles than I do about AI-authored content in articles. Feels like most of the content on HN is now AI related and it’s just exhausting. Anyon…

One obvious answer is that people probably don’t want to write a whole parser and wire up new steps in their build pipeline just to do something simple like get the name of enum ca…

You get to choose between UB, a crash, or handling the error — same as most other languages. It’s not a reliability issue of the language if as an author of software you choose to …

Tangential question for c++ devs: How would this even compile before the author fixed the Sphere* typo in the vector?

How often do folks venture off the happy path with Rust dependencies? Personally I’ve never once found myself in that situation.

The unique difficulties of driving in Miami might be the reason this is a good choice, not the reason it’s a bad one.

The problem with giving each team a repo and an API surface is that you create API boundaries where your organizational boundaries are, not necessary where your service boundaries …

Arc is an atomic (not automatic) reference counter which can be used across threads. Reference counting in general can still be tricky to use when you need cyclical references thou…

Would forcing disclosure of non-authorized parts not address that? If you were willing to pay the premium for authorized parts then you’d have the information to choose the right r…

There are union types, which despite being untagged might be enough in a lot of situations, and I believe has language support in things like switch statements. https://crystal-lan…

It’s hard to fault SpaceX for realizing a market opportunity here. If they can bring decent Internet to rural areas who don’t currently have broadband access, that’s just mutually …

I’m always surprised to hear folks having such negative opinions of beyond and impossible burgers. I quite like the taste despite it not being an exact beef flavour, and I think th…