The article also calls out copper which will be in PCBs and wiring looms.

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

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I shouldn’t worry about it.

Dynamic typing is a great feature at times. It’s a pain in the butt other times. One of the things I like about Zig is being able to have opt-in comptime dynamic typing. For a certain class of problem it’s really nice.

I think that’s a great set of criticisms.

None of these are sins of Rust, …

They might not be strictly language issues, but if they are symptomatic of idiomatic rust then they are “sins of rust”. Something about the language promotes writing it using these kinds of idioms.

Just like French speakers don’t pronounce 80% of the written syllables because it’s impractical to speak fast with all of them…language features (or lack of them) drive how the language is used.

(BTW the implicit return behaviour on a missing semicolon sounds like Chekhov’s footgun)

What language are they then? They’re not Python, JS, <insert any other language here>

The compression one is a great learning project IMHO. I did it long ago as a teenager. Should get them playing with File IO, iterating over buffers to create new buffers, managing some slightly more advanced data structures like stacks.

And testing it is fairly straight forward. Whatever you compress should come back when you decompress.

That’s more the standard library rather than the language I’d say, and the next set of changes looks more “additional” rather than “reworking” (unlike the last set).

…but yes, it is still fluid.

I think that’s a good observation.

Part of the problem is that all the while the stock prices stay up, those companies in the second bubble have the spending power of governments, and that in-turn inflates the first bubble.

Aye, and with all the money consolidated in a few big tech companies they’ve basically been able to form their own “oligarchy funded project” and act independently of any government.

An economy all their own.

No, but the companies using it should.

You are comparing very well established brands to a company in a sector that is far less established. Yes, OpenAI is the most well known, but not to the degree of $300B.

…which isn’t the condition being discussed.

I hear medication is also useful for malaria.

The last one was plain old dodgy rust code.

This OpenAI RAM buyout really was a “If we’re going down, we’re taking everyone with us” move.

The problem is PRs / CI tooling. They treat a repo as an independent project, but…:

• A change needs to be able to span multiple repos
• …or you need a way of expressing dependencies between changes in multiple repos
• …and you need to be able to block changes to dependencies that should be non-breaking but aren’t.

Zuul CI solved a lot of these kind of problems for the Openstack project but I’ve personally found it a bitch to setup. Lots of good ideas in it though.

So where are the regulators right now? Oh yes, they’ve all been completely gutted by the governments.

All the lights go out on mine when it overheats, and then there’s a puff of white smoke.

Unbounded capitalism is for sure.

I would say “AI” makes a good poster child for what to fight against. It embodies a lot of what’s wrong.

It’s good for optimisation problems, where you have a complex high-dimensional space to search and you’re solving for some measurable quality.