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As Steve mentioned, it was mostly for ffi. There's also a few places where I'm doing my own bounds checking in order to provide nicer error messages. After doing the bounds checking, doing an index operation without the standard library's bounds checking requires unsafe.
Couldn't you use get instead of [] for this? Maybe I'll look into it and send a PR :)
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> Alacritty follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing, and doing it well. That principle is often misapplied, and I think that's true here, too. The "do one thing" about Unix is really about composability (e.g. "find" doesn't need to sort because you do "find | sort"), but you don't compose a terminal app with anything. A terminal app that has terminal features doesn't violate any principles of simplicity.
I use st as my terminal application. Inside, I run dtach to provide detaching/reattaching functionality. Inside that I run dvtm to provide multiplexing and scrollback. Inside that I run bash. Inside that I run ad hoc commands. Everything's highly composable, e.g. I can switch out bash for zsh, fish, etc. I can switch out dtach for abduco. I can switch out dvtm for tmux or screen. I can switch out st for xterm or urxv…
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That's company policy and not the fault of the license. EDIT: Unless you're making modifications to the software, the AGPL does not apply. EDIT2: http://www.affero.org/oagf.html#How_does_this_license_treat_... Specifically, the question, "How does this license treat commercial enterprise use over intranets and internal networks?"
That only addresses part of the reason for the policy. Please, you have to be aware the legal world and companies is very complicated, and smart people spend a lot of time analyzing this.
So unless you want to offer Alacritty-as-a-Service, you should be just fine with the license.
Why OpenGL instead of Vulkan since that's where everything seems to be going these days.
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That is far from what I meant, and the suggestion that Rust is "salvation" is the stuff of infantile delusion. I'm a big fan of Rust, too, but it isn't going to be the "salvation".
I would characterize about 1/3 of HN posts as infantile delusion. You just learn to tune it out and get to the adult posts more quickly. There are browser extensions to help with this, too.
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2. I don't have easy access to the high DPI scale factor, so it needs to be configured manually for now :(. dpi: x: 144.0 y: 144.0 1. That doesn't sound good! Would you mind filing an issue?
Sure I will do when I get a moment :} One other feature that's a killer for me is being able to change the font size while running -- ctrl++/-.
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> You do seem overly excited. :) Hah, yeah I'm aware, but the potential of Rust is huge. We talk a lot about open source these days, but meanwhile the tools that we all use are sitting on huge substrates that the vast majority of us aren't contributing to and probably never will due to the complexity hurdle that needs to be overcome. This includes our web browsers, our terminals, our editors/IDEs, our operating syste…
> I'd much rather that those Mathematica utilities come to my terminal rather than me having to go to Mathematica. I believe that's what the parent meant. And I like this idea – a lot.
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> Alacritty follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing, and doing it well. That principle is often misapplied, and I think that's true here, too. The "do one thing" about Unix is really about composability (e.g. "find" doesn't need to sort because you do "find | sort"), but you don't compose a terminal app with anything. A terminal app that has terminal features doesn't violate any principles of simplicity.
I use st as my terminal application. Inside, I run dtach to provide detaching/reattaching functionality. Inside that I run dvtm to provide multiplexing and scrollback. Inside that I run bash. Inside that I run ad hoc commands. Everything's highly composable, e.g. I can switch out bash for zsh, fish, etc. I can switch out dtach for abduco. I can switch out dvtm for tmux or screen. I can switch out st for xterm or urxv…
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Yes, "tabs and scrollback are unnecessary" seriously, must be some sort of a joke, I work all day long in a terminal and tabs are a must have.
yeah, it's less "unnecessary", more "provided elsewhere". in this case, he's saying by tmux... which does mean learning a bunch of new keybinds, which is a little upsetting
You can tab between terminal windows, which have tabs between terminals, which run shells in a multiplexer ;)
Pretty awesome, but I'm not sure if I want my GPU fans spinning if all I'm doing is looking at a terminal :P