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I'm sure they are always changing the alg like all social media companies, but the habits of people have changed. They are most likely adjusting to it. But the main thing that effects your app experience is who you follow, what they post, and how you browse. Personally I've always gone straight to the profiles and view from there, but I view IG more as a photo gallery than anything else.
> … but the habits of people have changed. Surely, it could be both: the algorithm changes people’s habits and people change their posting habits based on the activity they think the algorithm is rewarding?
The consumer notices changes of their friends, who is posting what.
The creator notices changes in their impressions, how many is viewing what.
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Rust is far more widely used than D in the industry, so it's no surprised that it's more supported at Meta. Re: Go, it's use cases overlap with the officially supported languages, so there's no broad need for it.
>> Rust is far more widely used than D in the industry An off the cuff comment but all the same it made me think - how would you get data for an assertion like that. The usage of both D and Rust is notoriously low in the industry, a rounding error. That has to make it so hard to measure. Still, you'd expect D to be more popular because Rust's only been around 10-ish years or so. If you click through the TIOBE ranking…
Rust usage is not "notoriously low" (don't know how you came to believe that) and it's growing very rapidly. The fact that it's a major supported language at Meta is evidence enough to the contrary, not to mention the plethora of post titles on HN that end with "in Rust", or are about rewriting in Rust (some of these are personal projects but many are company blog posts). I haven't seen any for D. Also just looked at the 2022 June Who's Hiring thread and ctrl-f "rust" found 23 matches, though admittedly that doesn't mean there are 23 jobs using Rust there.
I wouldn't trust Indeed, personally I've found it to be pretty bad for programming jobs, and definitely not representative of the industry (especially estimated salary, it's been wildly off for every company I've been at).
I just tried searching for a few language popularity studies, any that I found did not even include D. The StackOverflow 2022 dev survey says that Rust is both the most loved and wanted language: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-loved-dreaded-and...
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"Elite" and "elitism" are totally different concepts. Disparaging jokes about programming languages are really tired and uninteresting, I was glad to see that the Carbon discord explicitly bans them.
In practice they're always (?!) about the userbase. Everything's got exceptions but it's usually a punch by proxy. This would be really obvious if it was anything else. If someone started making fun of say basketball, keeping it not about the people who play and are fans would be quite a precipice to navigate. You could certainly complain about the technicals of the rules but you're no longer in the world of jokes. G…
Tiny nitpick: Haskell the language and runtime is just another ML. You could technically write a ground-up Haskell program that doesn't do any maths stuff — in about the same way that you can write a ground-up Erlang program that doesn't use OTP.
Haskell just has a standard library and language-package ecosystem that's full of stuff only mathematicians were previously expected to understand. :)
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Not that you need to be a fan, but what are your reasons for not liking Rust? As a Rust developer, I'm always curious.
I think its killer feature is the memory safety guarantees, but other than that, I just don't find it as readable as other modern languages, mainly because it's symbol heavy.
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Thanks. I did not mean XAML literally though, something like that would be super nice for Linux. The project you linked brings Windows RT as a requirement. But just something with the richness of QT + Rust on Linux would be welcome. I am hearing the rust bindings for QT are just a pain and incomplete. I was hoping for Rust to really offer an alternative for C++ here.
Well, there is Slint in that case, from former Qt devs, but it is still pretty much early days. https://slint-ui.com/ Check their online demos.
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actually creating a cli with rust is really one of the best ways to use it. it is extremly fast and has a low footprint and if your cli does only one thing well it's probably easy to write opinionated rust. and clap is probably the best args parser available on the planet. no other language has an args parser that is so easy to use and still extremly fast with a low overhead than rust.
in what world is the arg parser performance critical?
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Probably because most of the backend developers are former frontend developers that are sick of JS.
> most of the backend developers are former frontend developers Is that true at fb? That's quite interesting if so.
Spite is a great design decision.
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The thing is that mutability is a useful and common property used by most programmers. It takes a bit of buy in to be convinced immutability is a good thing that solves bugs. For example: Here's a reasonable program to write in Python (wave hands here, my python is rusty) queue = [root] for node in queue: if !node.visited: # ... visit the node ... node.visited = True for child in node.children: queue.insert(child) He…
TBH I'm surprised that even works in Python – modifying a collection you're in the middle of iterating seems like a bad habit to get into in any language. edit: in fact, if you specifically use a deque in Python the way you are in Rust, Python will throw a "RuntimeError: deque mutated during iteration". This is just a bad approach in any language, honestly.