Hacker News: MFHava

New comment by MFHava in "Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)"

MFHava — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:31:46 +0000

Oh great, the next C-hack C++ will have to adopt for compatibility...

New comment by MFHava in "EDG C++ front-end goes public"

MFHava — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:21:30 +0000

Don't be sad for them. AFAIK those that didn't retire are now at Nvidia - hopefully continuing to improve the frontend...

New comment by MFHava in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

MFHava — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:55:16 +0000

No idea what you are talking about, I need none of the apps you mention...

New comment by MFHava in "C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments"

MFHava — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:05:05 +0000

>> The current contracts are not good enough for anybody who wants them - > This is a recurring pattern across large changes to c++. Modules and coroutines both are great examples of this.

Coroutines are ready since C++20, there is some stuff missing in the language (`for co_await` being the most obvious thing), but the feature is useful as is...

New comment by MFHava in "C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments"

MFHava — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:45:52 +0000

> And I think each national body has a veto. (that is the vote has to be unanimous, but not sure here).

No veto. Every P-member has a vote (abstain/approve/disapprove). Whether C++26 gets published is decided by numerical consensus.

New comment by MFHava in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

MFHava — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:50:01 +0000

Oh it was, actually still is - our right wing party is still talking about this stuff regularly...

New comment by MFHava in "Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)"

MFHava — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:35:54 +0000

> They then watched the gcc community work through 10 years of pain to make the transition.

During the same time the MSVC compiler broke ABI multiple times and the world didn't end.

The fact that breaking ABI was such a shitshow for libstc++ is more related to the way C++/ABI/SOs is/are handled in Linux...

New comment by MFHava in "Windows died inside Microsoft, a 25-year veteran on how Azure took over"

MFHava — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:49:11 +0000

I have to disagree with the author in one key detail: IMHO Windows wasn't neglected, it was actively made worse over the last decade(s)...

New comment by MFHava in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

MFHava — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:52:07 +0000

> no one is even buying idTech

Kinda hard to buy an engine that is not for sale...

New comment by MFHava in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

MFHava — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:16:10 +0000

> Most crucially, both keyboards introduced a new tenant: Control (⌃). This was modifier key number four, and to this day, I don’t fully understand why ⌘ wasn’t repurposed here

Because then we would have ended up with the same mess that is Windows (and Linux for that matter) when it comes to ^C being ambiguous...