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New comment by lukeweston1234 in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

lukeweston1234 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:59:24 +0000

Is the DX really that bad? You get a world-class package manager, test suite, formatter, linter, with multi-platform builds out of the box for free. Rust definitely has it's edges, but I think education is the problem, not the DX.

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

lukeweston1234 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:27:26 +0000

Not OP, but one example where it is a bit harder to do something in Rust that in C, C++, Zig, etc. is mutability on disjoint slices of an array. Rust offers a few utilities, like chunks_by, split_at, etc. but for certain data structures and algorithms it can be a bit annoying.

It's also worth noting that unsafe Rust != C, and you are still battling these rules. With enough experience you gain an understanding of these patterns and it goes away, and you also have these realy solid tools like Miri for finding undefined behavior, but it can be a bit of a hastle.

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "East Germany balloon escape"

lukeweston1234 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:51:48 +0000

The 2018 film is a really good movie, I would highly recommend checking it out!

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "The power of interning: making a time series database smaller"

lukeweston1234 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:38:37 +0000

Great post, one of my more favorite reads in the last few weeks.

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "Ask HN: What are some software projects with impressive websites?"

lukeweston1234 — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:53:17 +0000

https://supabase.com/ is very clean with a nice information hierarchy.

https://www.postgresql.org/ despite being quite technical, these docs are very easy to follow in a self learning format.

The new Angular and React docs are quite nice.

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from US computers"

lukeweston1234 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:15:05 +0000

I'm shocked that this occurred on Windows. What a secure and open platform with a history of prioritizing user safety.

New comment by lukeweston1234 in "Show HN: I Built an AI Tattoo Generator Using Flux"

lukeweston1234 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:32:48 +0000

Yeah I have the same issue with these types of projects as well. Could be interesting to map it on a 3D body part or scan so you could see how it looks on your body or next to your other tattoos.