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New comment by tisker in "Rust Weird Expressions"

tisker — Sat, 15 May 2021 11:28:14 +0000

I've written tons of Rust and C++ over the last 6 years, both in the context of large, complex codebases with hard real-time performance requirements. I've also managed teams where I've had to 'train' new engineers and I can say that it is categorically false that Rust is easier to learn than C++, it's not even close.

From my experience, it takes any new engineer, even if they have significant Rust experience, at least 3x the amount of time to get comfortable with a new Rust codebase than it does with a new C++ codebase. BUT, once you get past a certain stage of complexity, and everyone gets accustomed to the Rust codebase, managing the Rust codebase becomes a lot easier than the C++ one.

New comment by tisker in "The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking"

tisker — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:13:12 +0000

I'm note sure if I have completely misunderstood your comment, but are you saying that scientists exist "just to poison the well for the benefit of the billionaire class"???

New comment by tisker in "Ask HN: Should I learn C++ in 2021?"

tisker — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:11:13 +0000

I think it's always a good idea to learn as many different paradigms as possible. It also really depends on what direction you want to take your career/what the C++ team at your company is working on. C++ will be king for high performance, real-time compute for a long, long time. I work for a VR company making a VR-specific game engine, and C++ is pretty much the only game in town for extremely high performance, real-time graphics. So if you're interested in taking your career in the direction of high-performance, real-time systems then C++ is a great language to learn.

New comment by tisker in "Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?"

tisker — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:46:26 +0000

As an ex mathematician, I can't handle the part where he claims mathematicians have only been studying imaginary numbers "in recent decades" and then goes on to say that Mandelbrot is the first person to rigorously study these kinds of systems. Made me die inside.

New comment by tisker in "Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do?"

tisker — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:34:08 +0000

Interesting, I like this one. This seems like something GPT-3 might be able to do with some fine-tuning.

New comment by tisker in "Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do?"

tisker — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:44:51 +0000

I feel your pain, that would be amazing.

New comment by tisker in "Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do?"

tisker — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 13:02:22 +0000

I'll start: The ability to automatically find and repair bugs, while traversing the project structure to fix the related issues in relevant files.

Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do?

tisker — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 12:57:47 +0000

If you could magically wish an IDE/Editor feature into existence, possible or impossible, what would it be?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591758

Points: 6

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