Hacker News: metaltyphoon

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:05:02 +0000

+1. The idea of making tiling + floating a first class citizen was the best decision they made.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Why TUIs Are Back"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:28:41 +0000

> My cynical take why TUIs are back is because people operating in the terminal became a signal that you were competent and once people figured that out everybody started doing it

Are you saying GUI "the real deal"?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:35:34 +0000

> heavily influenced by Haskell... they just don't mention it and call things differently

Rust wikipedia says otherwise

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:30:15 +0000

Too much casing changes, IMO

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:27:24 +0000

   find . -type f -mtime +21 -delete

Or if you have fd

   fd -t f --changed-before 3w -X rm

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zed 1.0"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:11:07 +0000

Wait… Neovim also works on windows no?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:31:08 +0000

> without skills

This is not even remotely true

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Raylib v6.0"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:12:45 +0000

That's his go to for "hello world" for different languages :D. I love it so much.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig 0.16 Milestone Completed"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:34:08 +0000

Rust relies on a linker being installed (hopefully this will change). There is a lot of Rust libraries that are c wrappers and therefore you will need C compiler installed.

Zig on the other hand ships with everything I need to buy from one host to multiple targets out of the box.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:21:57 +0000

We all know that OP wasn't asking about THAT kind of interface and more "please create vtables for me" style of interface

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:21:06 +0000

Sadly no, as fas as I'm aware. I can't think of creating vtables manually every time I need to create interfaces, I guess Zig is not for me.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig 0.16 Milestone Completed"

metaltyphoon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:12:38 +0000

I don’t use zig daily, I rather use Rust, but damn this is awesome. I wish Rust would do this too.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "JVM Options Explorer"

metaltyphoon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:13:50 +0000

> scheduling every single opcode perfectly based on the deepest microarchitectural

Is that even possible knowing OOE+ branch execution and many other CPU tricks?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "JVM Options Explorer"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:23:18 +0000

I… didn’t think this makes sense :)

New comment by metaltyphoon in "A complete GPT language model in ~600 lines of C#, zero dependencies"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:26:08 +0000

Curious… why not a single app.cs instead of slnx + csproj boilerplate? The moment you `dotnet app.cs` it will be a cached and fast to start

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:37:26 +0000

Because it offers things where Go today doesn’t and never will?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Neovim 0.12.0"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:28:08 +0000

> the only way to do this incrementally without the massive friction of a full rust rewrite

Any rewrite is massive friction, I’m sure probably meant port? The only annoyance with Rust ports is if you have to support varargs. Hopefully that will come to an end soon.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Explore the Hidden World of Sand"

metaltyphoon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:03:30 +0000

No sand from Brazil with such a huge coastline?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:38:31 +0000

> I know people here hate design-by-committee, but historically it's led to some very cohesive languages.

C++ is not cohesive at all

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:24:52 +0000

Or have no more skin in the game, retirement.