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Moving from Rust to C++

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Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by eliasmacpherson »

raphlinus wrote: post #25
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the most important people in the later development of X Window, also worked on other 2D drawing APIs. [ EDIT: I was wrong about X Window. Take back all the karma! ]

I was only tangentially involved in X, but was active in a lot of related projects (some Gtk infrastructure, Ghostscript, the seeds of what became Inkscape), and now work on GPU-accelerated font rendering. I also played a central role in getting Rust adopted at Google, and now one of my passions is advancing the Rust GUI space, as I feel like that has enormous potential.

That too, I had no idea, am so impressed. I use your music-synthesizer-for-android code nearly as much as FM7.

:-)

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by 2h »

andrepd wrote: post #13
2h wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as you said, its annoying and a complete waste of time. Its essentially someone lying to their audience. As someone trying to build a reputation or a following, how do you do that?

No fun allowed! Rust evangelism is ze serious business! :)

I prefer Go myself. Rust is cool, but I dont like the "left pad" culture that Rust projects typically display. Although focused Rust projects that respect low dependency count are nice.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by ergonaught »

bot347851834 wrote: post #5

I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer. I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library). It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their co…

I used to simply not read tech news stuff on 01 April. Slashdot was impossible. I was actually interested in this topic so I guess I’ll pass on HN too.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by tester756 »

While having well designed language and libraries is really useful and handy

then using keywords/APIs that start with "__" is even better! it significantly increases readability!

Nested macros are the most powerful feature and very fun to debug!

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by raphlinus »

wdpk wrote: post #9

sounds like desperation to become relevant

I think you nailed it. I wake up each morning consumed with anxiety, thinking to myself, "how do I become relevant?" Clearly, having shipped advanced multilingual typesetting capabilities to billions of users didn't do it, nor developing high performance GPU rendering algorithms, nor having made a popular programming font. But posting a language comparison to Hacker News, that should put me on the map.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by smoe »

bot347851834 wrote: post #5

I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer. I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library). It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their co…

I wouldn't mind more humor on "serious" blogs/websites all year round if they have the writers who can do it well. But not everybody has to do it.

All these traditions to do something on a specific date often feel a bit forced to me. Especially those imported from other cultures. I would rather things feel more natural and spontaneous, than doing a prank on day x, buy significant other gift on day y, dress up on day z, etc.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by troad »

bot347851834 wrote: post #5

I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer. I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library). It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their co…

I'm generally someone who loves a laugh, but I don't enjoy the Internet's take on April Fools.

April Fools isn't really about jokes, it's more about pranks, and pranks are hard to do well. You need a lot of shared in-group context to be able to pull off a prank that's bold enough to be funny, but innocent enough to not be harmful. You don't have that kind of context on the Internet. So instead you end up with some bland yearly variation on "Our software will substitute X for Y, where Y is something we do well and X is widely mocked and disliked. Here's a mock-up. April Fools!"

Which, y'know... eh. Far too predictable to be funny, and kind of disappointing when you're keen for a real update.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by pornel »

raphlinus wrote: post #36
wdpk wrote: post #9

sounds like desperation to become relevant

I think you nailed it. I wake up each morning consumed with anxiety, thinking to myself, "how do I become relevant?" Clearly, having shipped advanced multilingual typesetting capabilities to billions of users didn't do it, nor developing high performance GPU rendering algorithms, nor having made a popular programming font. But posting a language comparison to Hacker News, that should put me on the map.

Face it, your work will never be as immortal as autotools.

You also bet on wrong languages. M4 is battle-tested, stood the test of time, and is much more stable.

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