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This is such a ridiculously inefficient means of raising money, for everyone involved. What would it take to just get people to pay for the services that they use, out of gratitude…

I... why? There was no need to compare this talented guy with an over-the-top, megalomaniacal and egocentric scientist from a sci-fi cartoon.

Can you and GP please avoid turning this into a battle to see which is the worse country?

You say 'beloved Objective-C'. Sorry if this is really off topic, but is objc_msgsend (the whole late-binding thing) or anything else about Objective-C particularly appealing? Mayb…

Because it's a term that means nothing but makes for good marketing.

Nope, this is exactly what low-level Rust code should look like.

I agree with your message but you're way too harsh. At least these guys, unlike antivaxxers, have genuine concerns. Maybe they're not considering the even worse alternatives in the…

But you'd have to do that in Rust too, or at least use a library like petgraph, because Rust hates cycles even more than C++.

But then your program uses slow, cache-unfriendly and much-reviled reference counting. I'd even prefer Ocaml and its fully-featured GC if C++ is only fast in artificial benchmarks …

Yeah, but unwrap is very, very explicitly marked, and its use is discouraged, and unlike null it's nothing close to an undesirable edge case on every single pointer. Edit: In my pe…

Uh, inherently faster as in, there's nothing about the API design that makes it easier to optimize.

Showing them all seems a bit impossible because the number would blow up really quickly, wouldn't it? Maybe it could categorise them, but that could be misleading, too... I don't k…

That is a very well-named problem.

Like you said, VanillaJS isn't inherently faster than any of these frameworks, but the cost to the user (and the increased API surface) isn't worth that tiny improvement in code cl…

> the employee is then forced to prioritise their work themselves and only focus on the pieces of work that align with their incentives. Which should align with the company incenti…

So that people don't get angry?

If you give me code and I don't run it, I don't really think I'm at fault here. If this was opt-in maybe they'd receive more sympathy, but as it stands wasting my electricity to ma…

But if most users have integrated graphics, and even with dedicated graphics cards the improvement is nowhere near an order of magnitude, would it be much better?

There isn't any LLVM support yet, and it doesn't look like anyone's working on it.

Honestly that sounds really creepy.

Why use hashes instead of, e.g., semver, or hash + patch version, so that you could patch Heartbleed easily?

And you fix these errors as they arise, adding platform-specific hacks to the library as necessary. Your product still ends up much smaller and better-performing than the others.

Why not ship an installer that checks for and appropriately installs DLLs?