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New comment by thezipcreator in "The Cost of Indirection in Rust"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:15:47 +0000

fair enough, I suppose

New comment by thezipcreator in "The Cost of Indirection in Rust"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:16:49 +0000

seems pointless to extract `handle_suspend` here. There are very few reasons to extract code that isn't duplicated in more than one place; it's probably harder to read to extract the handling of the event than to handle it inline.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:11:00 +0000

> And I don't know any other languages that don't parse a carriage return.

fair enough.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:09:15 +0000

you can just expose javascript functionality as a component, if need be

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:08:33 +0000

I would think you could treat it as a normal GC reference and then just drop the resource when the GC collects the object.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:30:32 +0000

I still don't understand how they managed to make a build system as bad as Gradle. It's like they tried to make it as horrible as possible to use.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:26:52 +0000

sure, but when I've written zig this has never been an issue for me. `defer` makes memory management really easy.

If you want to auto-generate destructors, zig has really good comptime features that can let you do that.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:25:57 +0000

I'm not sure why you shouldn't make your compiler accept CRs (weird design decision), but fixing it on the user-side isn't exactly hard either. I don't know an editor that doesn't have an option for using LF vs CRLF.

The unused variable warning is legitimately really annoying though and has me inserting `_ = x;` all over the place and then forgetting to delete it, which is imo way worse than just... having it be a warning.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:10:20 +0000

We've had machine translation for a while and I don't think anybody particularly thinks of it as a bad thing? Writing something and then having a machine directly translate it (possibly imperfectly) is a lot different than a machine writing the thing.

Personally I would like people to try learning other languages more (it's hard but rewarding) but you can't learn every language ever, and it is really hard to learn a language to fluency.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:03:52 +0000

The WASM component model is really cool in that you can export basically anything as a component and use it in basically anything else that can compile to WASM and understand components.

I would love something like this for native applications; I'm so tired having to wear C's skin every time I want to do bind together code written in different languages.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:02:41 +0000

I disagree. That's how WASM is now, and I guess that's fine, but that's not all it could be. I really think it would be awesome if you could write code for the web in your preferred programming language.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:56:44 +0000

webassembly components use a borrow checking model[1], so I assume that would be used to manage DOM components?

I'm not exactly sure how this works when binding it to GC languages.

[1] https://component-model.bytecodealliance.org/design/wit.html...

New comment by thezipcreator in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

thezipcreator — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:54:13 +0000

iirc webassembly components need to explicitly import anything they use, so it should be transparent which dependencies something has by just grepping its WIT for `import`

New comment by thezipcreator in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

thezipcreator — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:29:34 +0000

what's with people inventing new torment nexuses every few weeks? could you people just chill, please?

New comment by thezipcreator in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

thezipcreator — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:29:28 +0000

pochastic starrot

New comment by thezipcreator in "The Little Bool of Doom (2025)"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:35:51 +0000

`bool` is useful as a communication device; if you just use `int` (or `int32_t` or whatever) then it's not exactly clear that the value can only hold `1` or `0` unless you explicitly say it in the documentation. with `bool`, it's clear from the get-go that it's only ever `true` or `false`.

New comment by thezipcreator in "Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:52:50 +0000

cursorless (https://www.cursorless.org/) is basically spoken vim

it isn't for LLMs at all really but if you want to do code editing via voice it seems like it'd be really good for that.

New comment by thezipcreator in "D Programming Language"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:17:51 +0000

instead they made (or funded? not exactly sure) il2cpp which is a batshit compiler that compiles IL to C++ for better performance, I guess.

sidenote, I wonder how many other low-level to high-level compilers exist out there. can't be many.

New comment by thezipcreator in "D Programming Language"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:15:49 +0000

this is the main issue I think with D, yeah.

regarding kitchen-sink-ness it's at least nowhere near as bad as C++, but that bar is basically below the ground anyway so it's not much to write home about.

New comment by thezipcreator in "D Programming Language"

thezipcreator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:14:03 +0000

what are you referring to regarding Java? I'm aware C# has AOT (and il2cpp for Unity projects) but I don't recall hearing about any sort of Java native binary that isn't just shipping a VM and java bytecode (ignoring the short-lived GNU java compiler).