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Codeberg infrastructure needs work...

> If you're good you can keep a lid on tech debt in the face of rapidly changing requirements. If you suck at it, well... you can't. Every drop of tech debt (aside from AI slop) I …

If you're using Lisp, then sure. If you're using C++, then chances are you're going to have to heavily overengineer the thing to cover all possible requirement changes. That comes …

People say this, but I'm not sure I understand how it could be true. For example, taxing billionaires is often cited as the solution to this problem. But if we took Elon Musk's $73…

I suspect scheme would handle this much better.

Java may be memory safe, but no memory is safe from the JVM. :)

Do you feel threatened that Russia and Iran will succeed in conquering all of Europe and the Middle East? I see it more like a couple of misbehaving misfits. That's very different …

One could argue that human learning is not all that different from machines training on data. We are all regurgitation our own experiences and knowledge to some degree. We certainl…

Conversely, most of the high impact bugs are also written in C and C++, because they rely on "coding style and engineering practice" to be correct. Rust raises the floor on this by…

Gleam looks interesting, but I can't say I'm too impressed with Tangled... it won't even let me sign up.

That was my experience too.

Don't forget Jolt! It's clojure built on top of Chez Scheme, which is super cool.

Since the Rust support in the kernel is not optional, it already has an impact on platform support, no? Or maybe they are using the gnu toolchain to avoid that?

If it's written with nostd, I'd expect them to be similar.

> Less skilled co-workers will make mistakes that will have more consequences when the language is more permissive. Even the most skilled engineers are going to make these mistakes…

I'll put my money on AI software contributions...

The median alone doesn't paint the whole picture. We need to compare the spread as well. The median doesn't care if you make just under the median, or $1 a month.

I've only ever used emacs in vim mode (evil-mode). Its vim emulation is the best I've seen anywhere.

I'm happy to see these improvements. One thing that has always been annoying with Emacs is how much configuration is required to get a modern editor going. Things like Doom Emacs, …

I tried Helix for a few weeks and found it to be less efficient overall. Now granted it's hardly fair to compare 3 weeks to 20 years, so maybe with more time I might change my mind…

You sound like you would prefer Emacs over Vim.

While this is true, the fact that it is Rust provides a much greater level of confidence than if it was Python or something.

I have felt this many times. However, the effort involved in writing code does not indicate the amount of issues that code may have. This is why I prefer Rust to C++ these days - i…

I built my career on C++ and I agree with you. Rust is just superior in almost every way. C++ is dead to me for new projects.

It's funny how people take this perspective for Waymo, but when it comes to Tesla FSD, they are much less forgiving, even though I think Tesla's performance is at least as good, if…