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New comment by ottavio in "pgrust passes 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ottavio — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:34:25 +0000

Again pgrust?

This is going tò look like The Revenge of Zealots...

New comment by ottavio in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ottavio — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:03:48 +0000

Yes

New comment by ottavio in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ottavio — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:33:23 +0000

I have no issues recognizing that I had memory-related problems in production (I program embedded systems in C).

But most of my issues were related to concurrency and data sanification, especially when the other end of communication fails with unexpected behavior. These bugs are nastier than memory.

So, I have pointers, and I am not afraid to use them.

New comment by ottavio in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ottavio — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:27:17 +0000

Well, this approach is more similar to imposing a dogma thank engineering.

Is managing memory safely important? YES

Is managing memory safely the solution to most of the problems? Absolutely not.

Advocating the language ignoring everything else (having as first and only argument that the code was rewritten in rust fully qualify for this case) is dogma and not engineering.

New comment by ottavio in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ottavio — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:52:45 +0000

Why should a developer use this for anything beyond a pet project? Just because it is written in Rust?

All these "rewritten in rust" projects only reinforce the idea that a significant part of the rust community consists of software talibans and not of engineers who must deliver something that works and is reliable over time.

New comment by ottavio in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

ottavio — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:41:19 +0000

Bugs are not only related to memory and a program cannot be considered safe Just because it got rid of pointers, malloc and free.

If you really think that switching language is the main driver to get safe programs, the you are on the list of people replaceable by LLMs.

Othewise you have to understand that architettural chioces, concurrency, (weak) cryptographic function and user stupidity have a significant impact, no matter what language you use. Memory management is just a part of the problem.

New comment by ottavio in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

ottavio — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:27:47 +0000

Yeah, rust programmers are the new software vegans.

They claim it is better just because of the language, ignoring the features gap, the size of the team developing and supporting the software and not having solved any issue with the software they compete against.

And to be clear, this in not in favour of GH, it is against the mentality that the programming language makes better products and programmers.

New comment by ottavio in "Italy's $12.7B Bridge to Sicily [video]"

ottavio — Sun, 19 May 2024 19:41:52 +0000

On yearly basis, in 2023 it was #6

See page 83 of

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JHNwYFeNqfE2K6u08vk2-_ujhrY...

New comment by ottavio in "Show HN: Send Emails from Your Terminal"

ottavio — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:29:41 +0000

what's wrong with mutt? ;-)

New comment by ottavio in "[dead]"

ottavio — Tue, 04 May 2021 16:45:57 +0000

I wonder how the could make cadavers get erections...

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ottavio — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:33:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/fiat-s-founding-family-puts-a-jeep-selling-brit-behind-the-wheel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17608450

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Ask HN: Best website for making source code public according to the GPL

ottavio — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:04:21 +0000

Shipping products with open source components requires fulfilling some tasks, such as make the code of GPL-derived work public.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I am thinking about making the code available on one website offering public git hosting such as github or gitlab or bitbucket.

Based on your experience, what hosting service would you recommend? Why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16418865

Points: 1

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