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Fair, but it is less of a burden than just submitting a report with no proposed fix. Also, submitting quality patches regularly seems to be a good way to eventually become a mainta…

> but then what? Then you send the patch upstream, they incorporate and maintain it for you. Congratulations, you just FOSSed.

A cache line is simply the unit of data a CPU cache works with (generally 64 bytes, because someone somewhere has probably determined that that is the best line size for general us…

Pretty sure if you let only a handful of individuals from an almost-extinct species roam around freely in an uncontrolled environment, chances are pretty high something is going to…

I expressly said "not be so tightly coupled to LLVM" because I know they're not planning on dropping it altogether. But it is the plan for LLVM and Clang not to be compiled into th…

There is actually another C compiler written in Zig, Aro[1], which Zig started using since 0.16 for its TranslateC module. [1]: https://github.com/Vexu/arocc

Zig actually bundles LLVM's Clang, which it uses to compile C with the `zig cc` command. But the long term goal seems to not be so tightly coupled to LLVM, so I'm expecting that to…

How is it a hack? I mean, you may not like the fact that Zig does not provide syntax sugar for interfaces, but how exactly do you think they are implemented in languages that do?

It does not need to be an explicit check (i.e. a condition checking that your index is not out of bounds). You may structure your code in such a way that it becomes a mathematical …

First, if a performance optimization is a reliability regression, it was done wrong. A bounds check is removed because something somewhere else is supposed to already guaratee it w…

That whole section is kind of weird. The mention of operator overloading also seems out of place, since the operator is not overloaded here at all.

Not that it fits everyone, but that is basically how the Linux kernel is being developed.

That, too, though I'm sure that particular problem is mainly because of the textual animation in the background.

Funny how you can tell a project is vibe-coded just from a first glance at its website. All these websites seem to somehow have the same visual style. Anyone noticed this?

That is also my understanding. My personal theory is that many corporate compliance departments (or whoever is in charge of this at a particular place) just disallow any *GPL use i…

The indie gamedev scene is full of people for whom games are an art form. These people don't give two hoots about what "the industry" prioritizes, they just want to make their game…

I think the biggest mistake you can make is shifting your mindset from making a game to making a game engine . No, you still want to be dead set on making your game , you just don'…

> What if something is costly, that you need to compute dynamically, but not often, makes it into the frame? Do you separately now create a state flag for that one render object? T…

I actually use a very similar paradigm successfully in a game [1] whose (immediate-mode) UI is fully responsive. I allow more operations than just cutting to do that, but the basic…

You don't. Labels are local to functions in C.

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