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New comment by affenape in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

affenape — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:45:31 +0000

I've tried using RustRover over WSL2 multiple times with every new release, but it's been a huge disappointment every time. My fans constantly spin like crazy, memory vanishes into thin air, and typing is super laggy - it even overwrites random sections of the file sometimes. On top of that, the built-in terminal is totally unusable because it craps out and freezes the app whenever there's a large output.

PyCharm, on the other hand, was always great to use. But since VS Code gives me pretty much everything I need for my daily work without demanding too much from my system, I've finally moved away from JetBrains.

New comment by affenape in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

affenape — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:33:06 +0000

From the proposal, I see a bunch of new keywords and rules - alright given the language's heritage. But what happens if I "relocate" a variable value - would a "shell" remain or how exactly C++ is supposed to handle this:

  auto value = create_value();
  if (some_cond) {
    consume_value(std::move(value)); // not sure whether it's move here, but I guess my point is clear
  }

  use_value(value);

New comment by affenape in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

affenape — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:46:49 +0000

Finally, reflection has arrived, five years after I last touched a line in c++. I wonder how long would it take the committee, if ever, to introduce destructing move.

New comment by affenape in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

affenape — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:49:01 +0000

Not necessarily. A coroutine encapsulates the entire state machine, which might pe a PITA to implement otherwise. Say, if I have a stateful network connection, that requires initialization and periodic encryption secret renewal, a coroutine implementation would be much slimmer than that of a state machine with explicit states.

New comment by affenape in "Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R"

affenape — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:17:17 +0000

> A %PRODUCTNAME% next generation editor/ide is released

> Look inside

> VS Code

New comment by affenape in "Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499"

affenape — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:45:41 +0000

Can it run doom? Can it make doom come true?

New comment by affenape in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK"

affenape — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:52:36 +0000

For something having 2024 in its name I expected a more consistent error handling, but guess what:

* some functions like fsRenderCreate return 0 or 1 depending on the operation result;

* some like fsMapViewCreate say that a value less than 0 is returned on error;

* fsIOOpen says you should also consult with the fsIOGetLastError function on failure.

Hope somebody considers adding the errno.

New comment by affenape in "Material 3 Expressive"

affenape — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:35:55 +0000

Yikes... everything looks like jelly. Best served with Comic Sans MS.

New comment by affenape in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

affenape — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:46:52 +0000

Would be really NICE.