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Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#41

Post by rwaksmunski »

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.

Don't let the haters get to you. You and your work are awesome.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#42

Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

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.

Whoa. Now why did I think that. Sorry for the mis-attribution.

But also, you really should move to C++, for all the reasons you listed!

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#43

Post by auggierose »

vitehozonage wrote: post #28
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 read the whole post and didnt realise it was a joke until I saw your comment. Very irritating waste of time.

Just saw the title, the name of the author, and the date. Flagged.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#44

Post by mwcampbell »

pornel wrote: post #40
raphlinus wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I wouldn't be surprised if he worked with autotools and m4 when working on, for example, an early version of GNOME's librsvg. Seriously, I was looking at a librsvg header file a couple months ago and was surprised to find his name.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#45

Post by jmull »

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…

> a joke just without it really being funny

That's the real problem here. You can pretty much always get away with a joke -- if it's actually funny.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by notdang »

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…

My memory mught be failing me but I think Google anounced Gmail with 1GB(which was unthinkable at that time) on April 1, and the majority were sure that it was an 1st of April joke.

When it appeared it felt like magic and wad still unbelievable. It's sad that the things turned out as they are.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

#47

Post by raphlinus »

pornel wrote: post #40
raphlinus wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You are right, and that is an excellent way to state my goals: I hope to create systems that have as much lasting impact as autotools.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by tylerag »

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…

My thought process:

> Moving from Rust to C++. Unusual, but probably interesting.

> Written by Raph Linus? Fuck me, he must have a good reason.

> Oh. It's April 1st. I'm going to go organize my garage.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by camdenlock »

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.

Holy crap, imagine being this insecure.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by raphlinus »

camdenlock wrote: post #49
raphlinus wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Holy crap, imagine being this insecure.

Yeah, it's no walk in the park, let me tell you that.
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