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This reminds me of all the confused comments that pop up whenever someone calls plain HTML with forms and links a "REST API." "But APIs are for programs! People visiting websites a…

> Exceptions are a mechanism for resumable error-handling. Rust's `catch_unwind` function is a last-ditch mechanism for failure isolation Tomayto Tomahto. > I have seen many Rust p…

> When you're updating 23 if-statements because you had to add support for some new business workflow, you'll wish you had a conceptual entity that encapsulated the operations on t…

> I consider Clean Code to be in the category of books/styles that is helpful for early developers who need some structure Clean Code is unhelpful to beginners too, though: misuse …

Yes the support is still there, although official MS documentation no longer mentions it. Some of those headers rather flagrantly violate C's strict aliasing rules, which I suspect…

One good example of DoD which isn't CPU-cache-related is relational databases. When designing a CRUD application, the Data-Oriented way of doing it is to figure out what data you w…

I feel like DoD is one of those things that only makes sense after you already believe in it. There's a sort of KISS epiphany that you have to go through which I don't think the co…

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It's hard for me to think of a definition of "exception" which doesn't include Rust's panics: use std::panic::catch_unwind; fn throws_exception(){ panic!("hello"); } fn main(){ mat…

Now it's your example that's too simple. I can't present a counter-example that wouldn't look totally different: if you avoid the indexing operator then trivially incorrect code li…

The worst part about rust not having exceptions is that it actually does have exceptions, you just shouldn't use them. All the downsides and none of the benefits: https://smallcult…

The way I see it, as far as memory safety is concerned that's just framing. Both Fil-C and Rust have a boundary below which the unsafe lives. If Fil-C is only safer than rust when …

Yes, rust didn't invent the concept of an iterator, and is thus not the only language which offers a solution to statically avoid bounds checks. Feel free to give a more "interesti…

This isn't entirely true. Rust's indexing operator performs a dynamic check but the language and stdlib have a number of ways to access array elements without indexing, which is ef…

> For example you can call mmap in Fil-C and it is still guaranteed to be memory safe, while in Rust you can easily violate memory safety by calling mmap. That's the thing, though.…

He claims that all syscalls are safe because they're implemented by his custom libc, but that libc then calls out to the system libc, where the system calls are unsafe. He then cla…

> Its their time to spend as they see fit. I'm complaining on these developers' behalf, not bemoaning them doing what they were more or less forced to do. If glibc decided tomorrow…

> If you're curious, and you too aren't in love with the "Modern frontend" philosophy I'm also going to hesitantly mention sveltekit. From the outside it looks like yet another JS …

Sure Wayland works fine. What you're not seeing is the hours and hours of volunteer labor wasted to get it to that point. Time that could have been spent working on features users …

I indeed did not know about this. There seem to be some caveats: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng... I guess for the meta refresh challenge it's less "p…

It's somewhat interesting to see the FSF's approach to this. From what I understand they can't really use something like anubis since they want their websites to be accessible with…

> but then product introduces a business rule where some fields need to be hidden when another option is selected somewhere function initWidget(root){ // Or a bunch of calls to doc…

Agreed. IME the main reason to choose arena allocators is for correctness, not speed. They make similar time/space tradeoffs to garbage collectors in that they grant higher allocat…

Thinking of it as a "stopping condition" is backwards, that part of the loop is called the invariant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_invariant You should think of it as the con…

> without having to do any sudo commands or expose anything new to the network. Again I'm not understanding the distinction. I don't need to run sudo commands to install a web serv…