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New comment by greenheadedduck in "Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust"

greenheadedduck — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:27:50 +0000

I wonder how linux devs feel about the rewrite in Rust. I mean surly loads of them have decades of experience in C, and Rust seems like such a different beast. Can any C developers provide insight, how is this transition?

New comment by greenheadedduck in "Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)"

greenheadedduck — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:41:00 +0000

Compared to..citizen's kane, godfather, 2001 a space odyssey, basically any of the older "top" movies.

New comment by greenheadedduck in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

greenheadedduck — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:56:36 +0000

Python.

New comment by greenheadedduck in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

greenheadedduck — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:19:18 +0000

Did your work at meta help a lot with this project. Tell us about it if so!

New comment by greenheadedduck in "The independent researcher (2018)"

greenheadedduck — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:48:06 +0000

I read a bit of the referenced paper. Sounds pretty cool :). Good luck