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New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:19:22 +0000

https://www.assemblyscript.org/ is pretty darn close, but it would probably be better to converge and not split communities

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:07:26 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree, these are all "tools" at our disposal. We're just holding them wrong.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:40:37 +0000

I'd like to emphasize that the above should be immediately obvious. The fact that it's not does not bode well for humanity's future.

Billionaires simply _should not exist_. The fact that the power to shape societies is concentrated in so few can account for many of the existential threats we face today. AI is not "the problem", it's merely the latest symptom of our broken system and the prioritization of the wrong goals and outcomes.

EDIT: grammar

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:02:36 +0000

I think devx is being misused in this article a bit. Obviously the tooling for java is second to none, aside from maybe the travesty that is gradle.

What they apparently mean is how "ergonomic"/"expressive" the actual syntax and type systems of those languages are. In that case c# is ahead of java by a decent margin. Luckily java is still evolving, usually by stealing many of the good ideas from other languages like kotlin. But overall those are less language and more runtime features like project looms green threads etc.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:53:45 +0000

I really wish the ruby maintainers had gone with optional inline types like python3 did. Then crystal would simply be a "strict" type mode of ruby. Now we have two basically identical languages with separate communities and libraries. To me it seems... Not ideal.

That said, I laud crystal for doing what ruby would not. It's a great language, but I doubt it'll ever make it to even ruby usage numbers.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:49:23 +0000

Key sentence in their justification seems to be:

"allowing this enables many common JavaScript patterns"

Honestly at this point they should make a new strict "no js" mode, as the ecosystem likely has reached a tipping point where you can get by without mixing typed and untyped js at compile time. Wonder if targeting wasm directly would help ensure those boundaries are ensured...

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:43:24 +0000

Yikes. I've only been using ts for about a year, I had no idea this was considered a "valid" case. Seems like a type error to me. I wonder how they justify this?

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:34:05 +0000

go's type system is significantly more limited in what it can do for you, as opposed to rust or ts. Limited syntax seems to be one of the overarching design decisions for that language, making it more like C with better concurrency primitives. It can feel a bit limiting at times, but at least they have generics now and you can almost do things like union types by constructing interfaces that mimic them, but it isn't exactly ergonomic.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:25:13 +0000

I agree that rust devx is a bit lacking (not much though tbh), and that as the article suggests, structuring your project in a way to ensure invalid states simply cannot be represented is "the way." However, the assessment of other languages limitations seem a bit off to me, or at least I'm not grokking what they're claiming (a "me" problem in that case.)

What does "types in typescript are lies" even mean? Typescript from my experience has a fairly robust typing system with union types etc that many other languages called out lack (java, etc)

Is it a "lie" because it compiles to js? Compiler guarantees still stand regardless of whether you target IR, bare metal CPU instructions, etc. "any" types are definitely a foot gun, sure, but it I wouldn't call ts' type system a "lie" and not explain what that means. The ts language and ecosystem definitely has it warts, but in general those warts aren't the type system.

EDIT: correction, turns out I was fooled by ts lies all along. They allow clear type violations in several cases by design as pointed out elsewhere in this thread. Shame on them I guess. That said I've been using typescript in strict mode heavily for a year and it's good enough. Apparently there are some knarly edge cases hiding around several corners...yikes

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:04:55 +0000

At some point these AI companies need to pay the piper as it were and actually provide a return for their investors. Expect cost cutting attempts to continue unless backlash is great enough to pose an existential threat to these companies.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

drzaiusx11 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:00:54 +0000

My gut says it would infact hold up in current US courts, but only because the lionshare of corporations want it to and the courts have been stacked in their favor.

I personally believe it should not and that AI code should NOT be considered a "clean room" method. That said, IANAL.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:34:47 +0000

There's a number of s3 front ends for web as well as native mobile s3 clients like S3Drive that provide exactly that https://s3drive.app/

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Layoff Thinking"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:21:35 +0000

It certainly can be both, no? It was for me at least

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:23:43 +0000

AFAICT, large saas players can simply implement the software interfaces regardless of business source licenses like what happened to redis, no? Or is there some specific protections for API surfaces that I'm not aware of. I vaguely recall Google v Oracle almost established some protections but then got deferred in later ruling. My memory is hazy on that though...

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:17:04 +0000

Doesn't multiple lock support then not make it a mutex anymore? I thought that becomes a monitor lock instead? I forget how standardized the terminology is though, there may be leeway in the mutex definition already.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:12:43 +0000

Genuinely curious on why I'm getting down voted for the above comment

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:01:42 +0000

For a hot second yes, and I even use the modern one's tart cli

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:06:07 +0000

For me it's always the fear of AI regurgitating something legally problematic directly from its training set: unintentionally adding copyright and licensing issues from those even with no intentions of doing so.

Obviously these issues existed before AI, but they required active deception before. Regurgitating others people's code just becomes the norm now.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:56:57 +0000

As a tart cli user, I'd love to know more about their "more open" licensing of that particular project that they call out that will follow the merger.

That said, I find their aqui-hire by OpenAI disappointing for a number of (mostly personal) reasons. However, I wish them the best regardless.

New comment by drzaiusx11 in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

drzaiusx11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:50:15 +0000

While copyright exists automatically upon creation, the Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that the registration certificate must be granted before you can initiate a lawsuit.