Viewing profile — simon_o

Or maybe you don't want to. If that's the hill you want to die on, good luck.

It's not an either or. We have hundreds of languages made to please the corporate overlords. Can't we just have one language that's actually nice to use?

That seems to be an absolute win to be honest. Not sure how you think this is helping your case. Maven Central people nuked the artifact that may have caused confusion, and if the …

I think Rust's `async` has been a great success for commercial "sponsors" of Rust, because it increased the complexity of the language so much that it's hardly possible anymore to …

The problem is the ecosystem split and the decades of man hours of churn caused in libraries and user code – that's time and effort that could have been spent on making those depen…

> Namespace is not a solution for name squatting: namespace is just yet another identifier that can be squatted. If you are worried about squatting, the only effective solution is …

Unlikely, I'd expect most people to not have a meltdown about this.

Not to mention that this boats gentlemen is on account number 3 already, so it appears that moderators on this site have already told –him more than once– that he should offer his …

I think there are some lessons that can be learned from Java's virtual thread approach – note that there is a huge gap in requirements and design trade-offs, especially around embe…

Some Rust people just have to be that dramatic.

It has everything to do with Rust's decisions.

Agreed, it's just that in Rust async/await hurts more than in e. g. JavaScript where the browser gives you enough hooks to have a "fresh start with(out) async".

This. The harmful decisions Rust made highlight its ingrained culture of doubling down on previous mistakes at all costs. There seems to be no reevaluation of the cost/benefit rati…

> you never need to think about it, only get smaller and more beautiful files People said the same thing last time and it took more than 10 years until decoding worked reliably. I'…

> It's a yes! Reminds me of "You Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not You Could, You Didn't Stop To Think If You Should." The arithmetic coding feature was already pa…

Mozilla only does what Google tells them.

You seem to have serious issues, and I hope that you can work them out. That's the prerequisite for me to engage any further with you.

That quote is programming language design's "We should improve society somewhat" – "Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent." I. e. it's stupid and embarrass…

Most likely not wanting to repeat Rust's mistakes.

Ah, here it is, the clueless/idiotic comment about the CCC being left that is guaranteed to show up every year on HN.

If you know nothing, maybe don't comment?

Your "it's just a matter of taste" just shows a lack of research. The decision has a lot of important second-order effects, and a lot of people are heavily invested in denying that…

[flagged]