How do you feel about Arc<Mutex<T>>? Personally, I just put every variable in an Arc Mutex to make my life easier.

V-G-S

Be careful for when they randomly swap the buy and close buttons.

My guess (and hope) is it’ll be just for fresh installs. That’s a big change and could break things for some people. But we’ll see!

I might give Wayland a try, but likely stay in X for a while yet. I have a little bit of software (like KeepassXC) that doesn’t quite have full Wayland support yet.

Yes. It probably won’t be available for install tomorrow, but I’m hoping its a pretty seamless upgrade once it lands in the repos.

JFC. When will people learn that there will be toxic people in ANY community of sufficient size.

Also, as far as I know this crate isn’t official in any capacity. Not to mention that base64 isn’t terribly complicated if you don’t like this crate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64)

This post just sounds like trolling.

It’s a total guess, but my theory is that people on the right are tolerant of enshittification and may even find it appealing, while the rest of us just leave. This seems to be the case with Twitter, so maybe Reddit is following?

Will someone answer that damn ringing!?

I’m going to have a fair bit of code to refactor once this lands!

I think it’s something being worked on. Unfortunately I can’t recall the details offhand.

I guess that’s my point. The article criticizes reference counting as if it’s strictly worse, but it’s not so simple. Even with a GC funny things can happen so it’s worth understanding the memory model of the language.

I disagree. Async Rust is fine, but it does have some baggage, not least of which is Pin/Unpin which I still don’t fully understand. But that aside, I prefer writing async Rust to any other language because the rest of Rust comes along for the ride!

It’s actually amazing that I can use the same mental model for async code on a small MCU or a large server.

Is Arc really the worst GC? Doesn’t Swift use reference counting also? I did a few minutes of searching but couldn’t really find any benchmarks comparing Arc with Swift RC or some other GC.

I feel that async Rust is a good set of tradeoffs that allows it to scale to a lot more than just writing web servers. Rust seems to be pretty good for web servers too though.

Clearly you’ve never read Hacker News. :)

Every point I’ve made has several threads on pretty much every Hacker News post about Mozilla or Firefox.

I was using Firefox when it was still called Phoenix, and I switched to Chrome briefly about 10 years ago when it was actually a bit better than Firefox. At the time, most people I knew in the tech sector were using Firefox. It’s Firebug extension was a major boost for development. Chrome was a bit better and their dev tools were even better than Firebug at the time.

I switched back to Firefox when I saw the direction Google was taking it, and I know a lot of other people did as well. Still, many people stayed with Chrome. There’s no shortage of comments on Hacker News about “I dropped Firefox because X” or “I tried to switch to Firefox but X”, where X is one of the things I mentioned.

Chrome got to where it was in no small part to us “computer people” saying it was good. And now not enough of us are saying Firefox is good. It breaks my heart to see so many young and smart developers choosing Chrome.

We’re heading back to the bad old days of IE dominance, with proprietary extensions, playing fast and loose with standards, and market dominance pushing for things that only benefit one company. ActiveX still gives me nightmares.

I’ve never understood the logic of people who switched to Chrome from Firefox.

Mozilla has an overpaid CEO, so let’s switch to a browser that’s run by one of the richest companies on the planet. Firefox broke some extension, so let’s switch to a browser that has an even worse extension model. Firefox shows client side ads that are easily disabled, so let’s switch to a browser actually run by an ad tech company. Firefox changed the UI to look like Chrome (and they hate the design), so I guess switch to Chrome?

It makes no sense…

Please stop using Chrome

If you consider that England used to be in the EU, the world runs on ARM (even your fancy new Apple M1 or M2 chips). STMicro and Nordic semi are huge players in the embedded space. There’s even Spotify!

It really is! I’ve actually held a package. I can’t remember if rice was even an ingredient.

My issue isn’t with the technology but the fact that only an announcement created $100,000,000,000 worth of “value” while at the same time people are losing their jobs.

And even if the tech works, there are any number of reasons it won’t be successful. A competitor may beat them to it, or an open source one comes out, or the UI is terrible, or a middle manager cancels the project, or…

I have no issues with people making piles of money for creating useful things, but I do take issue with the speculative market moving around so much money while inequality is on the rise and people are out of work. And some of these are the very people who created that “value”.

I don’t really have a solution, but I also refuse to accept it as just the way things are.

Stock prices are crazy! For all we know this AI powered Excel is vapourware but the stock goes up over an announcement.

So much value created for society from a press release!

Meanwhile, record profits…