Hacker News: metaltyphoon

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

metaltyphoon — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:34:45 +0000

10… it is 10 now

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Claude Seems Down"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:35:17 +0000

Meanwhile using it via GCP Vertex it was down terribly for 2 days last week

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:31:29 +0000

> No, printf does not flush when \n is encountered, unless you specify it with setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);

If stdout is connected to a terminal, it is already line buffered and one doesn’t need to setvbuf at all

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:34:26 +0000

Well, printf flushes when \n is encountered. Does zig have something similar?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:19:28 +0000

I think when people mention generics, they don’t mean builtins from the language but a language construct for generics.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:15:43 +0000

C# was meant to have generics in day one, but it didn’t make the cut and it was introduced on the next version (2.0)

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:51:19 +0000

Mark? AwareDigital 2013?

New comment by metaltyphoon in "G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:53:12 +0000

Funny enough, in their both latest versions. C# AOT has a smaller runtime than Go one

New comment by metaltyphoon in "G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:51:09 +0000

> since any use of external imports is prefixed by the package name.

And this is also one of its biggest problem, any package can take a good valid variable name that can’t be used without shadowing a package. If it only didn’t make the stupid, IMO, idea of casing for access modifiers and made struct Pascal then this wouldn’t have been a problem.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:18:23 +0000

This must be an online thing. In 15+ years of career I haven't yet heard "real software engineer...". If you get your work done no one cares how the hell you accomplish it

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:53:35 +0000

> Rust is (mostly) safer and more succinct than Zig while being dramatically less ergonomic

This is just your opinion.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:51:55 +0000

> Tokenmaxxing was never a thing to begin with.

Anecdote, I thought so too until the company I work just instated this where you have spend from 35-60K within 6 months. Insanity

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

metaltyphoon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:43:45 +0000

The M5 air is much faster than M1 Pro (I have the same setup as OP)

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:55:23 +0000

I guess I should have been more specific. I'm not a fan of fields all being public

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

metaltyphoon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:07:24 +0000

For me, anytype and the everything is public

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

metaltyphoon — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:47:52 +0000

> Do you want to iterate using for loop or using .iter().step(2).map()?

I don’t think it matters, specially for sort sized loop scopes

New comment by metaltyphoon in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

metaltyphoon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:41:21 +0000

The grass is not always greener. I would change the Service Fabric crap I have to deal with any day to K8s.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "macOS Container Machines"

metaltyphoon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:40:46 +0000

> wsl2 (and this apple thing) is just a meme. if you're working in it, you're better of just installing Linux or ssh'ing to a server.

Many enterprises allow windows only so your way into Linux is via WSL2

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:31:15 +0000

For me it’s string handling, no private, unused variable is compilation error, and having to implement interfaces myself.

New comment by metaltyphoon in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

metaltyphoon — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:18:18 +0000

Go changed something, not sure if 20 or 21, where it will download the Go compiler of all your third-party which don’t match yours. It slows things down.