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Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by mike_hock »

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…

The point of April Fool's day isn't to make a joke, it's literally to fool people. Sure, it should be funny once you realize it was a prank, but the goal should be to actually convince you.

It should make some kind of statement or call attention to some kind of issue, and the fact that people willingly believed your false report, by itself, should prove your point. That's the purpose.

But, of course, we live in a world where the minute you open your mouth, you're deemed responsible for other people's idiocy, so everyone's just making inane jokes.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by [deleted] »

tylerag wrote: post #48
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.

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Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by Ygg2 »

2h wrote: post #33
andrepd wrote: post #13

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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.

Go is so 2020. Zig is the new freshness.

Sorry. It's Nim now.

Edit 1: Well, this just in, Verse is taking off.

Edit 2: Top language this second is JSFuck.

Edit 3: JAI was released two days in the future and was ported to JS.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by PhilipRoman »

nequo wrote: post #92
hotmustard wrote: post #75

Funny thing, I've been moving Swift to C++, for real. I'm paying a price, but also getting some benefits. I'm not convinced that giving up on C++ and rewriting everything in a new language is a great idea. If I could get some compiler extensions to give me some experimental toys and syntactic sugar, I'd never be tempted by Rust/Swift/etc.

For what use cases have you been moving from Swift to C++ and what benefits have you seen? Unrelatedly, given that they all compile down to LLVM IR, in some sense Rust, Swift, and C++ are all syntactic sugar, aren’t they?

You could also compile Python to LLVM IR. That doesn't say anything about Python.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by dochtman »

bombcar wrote: post #76
tialaramex wrote: post #30

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The best April Fools are real but funny, like when GitHub announced SVN support. Ha ha, I don't need Subversion, oh it works... huh, well, I still don't need Subversion but thanks I guess. April 1st would be a good time to do Winter's Day if we could pull that off (Winter's Day is a holiday from the Miracleman comics - to celebrate Winter Moran, Miracleman's daughter, by allowing children to run the world for one day…

Wasnt gmail announced on Apr 1st?

They were trying to get out in front of the NYT breaking the news of GMail, see The Social Radars podcast episode with Paul Buchheit (https://www.thesocialradars.com/episodes, great episode).

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by throwitaway86 »

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…

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Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by winwhiz »

oconnor663 wrote: post #54
camdenlock wrote: post #49

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Holy crap, imagine being this insecure.

One time someone left a comment on one of my videos that was like "I don't like the sound you make when you drink water." And now whenever I look back at that video, I remember that comment, every time. It's wild how the mind works.

I don't know what it is called I just know the sound it makes when it goes down a man's throat.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by throwbadubadu »

gpm wrote: post #65
skrebbel wrote: post #52

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Yeah but, is there any argument that’s more tiresome than Rust people pointing and laughing at C++?

Which is why putting it in a humorous context is worthwhile in the first place

Not sure, tiresome means those obvious jokes have such a long beard, so the humorous context doesn't help it is just not funny at all anymore.

Re: Moving from Rust to C++

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Post by masklinn »

secondcoming wrote: post #27
masklinn wrote: post #14

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For the last 5-10 years I've though of April 1st as a hell-day. Most years, this sentiment (and warning) is what I post in a private group. At least this year it's on a saturday not a weekday, so most of the cringiest corporate april's fools are not happening. The web just goes to shit with jokes which sometimes visibly take a lot of effort (e.g. unless this post was AI-generated and while it's much shorter than the…

That's the whole point of it!

Dread and making an entire media functionally unusable is the point?
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