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New comment by orangetuba in "Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?"

orangetuba — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:44:02 +0000

Please take your activism elsewhere...

New comment by orangetuba in "A language that supercedes C, but with a borrow-checker"

orangetuba — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 20:11:07 +0000

Thank you! That is definitely an interesting language. However, it seems like development has stopped. The GitHub page says: "Note: For personal reasons, I'm on an extended break from the coding side of Vale, feel free to DM me on discord for details. - Evan Ovadia"

A language that supercedes C, but with a borrow-checker

orangetuba — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:35:12 +0000

I am interested in safe languages, but without the complexity of Rust. I already spent many years working with C++, and I notice similar tendencies with Rust. Are there any up and coming, safe alternatives to C, without, perhaps generics and all that it entails?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38804704

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by orangetuba in "Is Ada safer than Rust?"

orangetuba — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 19:56:40 +0000

I always wondered why you brilliant people who "get Lisp" never actually released anything written in Lisp.

New comment by orangetuba in "Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move"

orangetuba — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:03:51 +0000

Norway is not nearly as woke as Sweden, so I doubt it.

New comment by orangetuba in "Swedish dockworkers are refusing to unload Teslas at ports in broad boycott move"

orangetuba — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:59:33 +0000

Typical swedes. It is probably the most woke country in the world... but they are paying a price for that now.

New comment by orangetuba in "A language like C, but with a borrow-checker"

orangetuba — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:35:43 +0000

Excellent, that's precisely the thing I was looking for! Thank you! I see that there are some tricky issues that would have to be solved with regards to ergonomy, even with an imagined subset of Rust.

A language like C, but with a borrow-checker

orangetuba — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:56:42 +0000

I really appreciate the idea of a Rust-like borrow-checker, but I think Rust is too complicated. Wouldn't it be possible for someone to make a smaller language like C, but with a borrow-checker? It seems that most of the aversion to Rust is the sum of its complexity.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38302853

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by orangetuba in "Mojo is now available on Mac"

orangetuba — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:42:56 +0000

It is a closed source programming language, yes.

New comment by orangetuba in "AMD may get across the CUDA moat"

orangetuba — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:58:56 +0000

Nvidia on Linux is more like running Windows 95 from the gulag, and you're covered in ticks. I absolutely detest Nvidia because of the Linux hell they've created.

Performant GUI Applications

orangetuba — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:54:10 +0000

I am going crazy with all the electron-based applications that use several gigabytes of memory without doing anything. What are good options and frameworks for making applications that are performant and low on memory usage? C and Gtk? C++ and Qt? I want to make something like Google Maps, but with decent performance.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602260

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by orangetuba in "Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules"

orangetuba — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:00:29 +0000

I just switched to AMD Radeon as well to get away from the nVidia hellscape that is nVidia and Linux.

New comment by orangetuba in "Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust"

orangetuba — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:07:13 +0000

So if you take a Python program and you add the mental effort of having to deal with static types, lifetimes, the borrow checker and performance considerations, and this added mental effort actually allows you to write the program faster?

That is incredible. It's like being able to carve- and install a door from a slab of wood faster than installing a prefabricated door.

New comment by orangetuba in "Candle: Torch Replacement in Rust"

orangetuba — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:03:09 +0000

I couldn't agree more. This has turned me away from Rust as well.

New comment by orangetuba in "Why I Left Rust"

orangetuba — Sun, 28 May 2023 10:17:59 +0000

I couldn't agree more. This is pure manipulation.

New comment by orangetuba in "Why I Left Rust"

orangetuba — Sun, 28 May 2023 10:15:54 +0000

I've attended a few Rust conferences and events, and they have all been unusually politicized. There has been a very strong emphasis on how inclusive the community is, which raises some red flags. It is akin to someone repeatedly expressing how smart or funny they are... it makes you wonder why. I was waiting for something like this to happen.

New comment by orangetuba in "A lightweight (~5000 LOC) Python interpreter for game engines"

orangetuba — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:46:45 +0000

HAHA,good one!

New comment by orangetuba in "Ask HN: Where are all the parties?"

orangetuba — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:42:25 +0000

Unfortunately I don't even live in the US, but BBQ with someone Argentinian would be incredible.

New comment by orangetuba in "A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job"

orangetuba — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:44:40 +0000

It is not similar at all. Kids all over the world draw swastikas on bathroom stalls and such, just to provoke. Rarely do they get beheaded/stabbed as a consequence, though.

Swastikas are not acceptable, but very few have any strong personal feelings about it. The prophet of this ideology, however, is like a (glorified) family member to 1/4 of the world's population, and you can very easily get killed for depicting him. The most recent and well-known case was the stabbing of Salman Rushdie.

New comment by orangetuba in "A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job"

orangetuba — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 12:39:23 +0000

They have very large representations compared to every other major non-christian religion in european countries. Islam is also the fastest growing religion in the world, by far.

On top of that, it is the religion that gets in unproportional amount of media time in every european country due to all the problems it represents.