Hacker News: zeroc8

New comment by zeroc8 in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

zeroc8 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:28:17 +0000

Mir worked in 2014? Wayland took until 2025.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

zeroc8 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:33:15 +0000

That has been Microsoft's gameplan for years. While Apple delivers, Microsoft promises it will deliver soon. And then it never happens.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

zeroc8 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:33:05 +0000

Yes, for a developer it's great.

But then you come across things like "movie not playing due to missing DRM support" and crap like that.

Normal users are probably better off with a Macbook.

New comment by zeroc8 in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

zeroc8 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:40:16 +0000

But that has nothing to do with the language.

New comment by zeroc8 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

zeroc8 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:38:06 +0000

That's what we've been doing for a long time. But that's not possible with today's China anymore. They are as innovative as the rest, if not more so.

New comment by zeroc8 in "PascalABC.net"

zeroc8 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:20:04 +0000

and it costs 749 bucks....

New comment by zeroc8 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

zeroc8 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:52:42 +0000

They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...

New comment by zeroc8 in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

zeroc8 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:27:05 +0000

I believe the damage is done and there will be no going back to the old ways. This time around I'm sensing a real change in attitude. People in Europe are sick and tired of all the US bullshit that's been going on for far too long. It's not just the lunatic in the White House. It's the whole system that's being rejected. The endless greed. The bigotry. The war on everything. Peaceful cooperation and coexistence, that's what we want. I'm for my part quite happy and optimistic about the deal with India and I hope more regions will follow soon.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground"

zeroc8 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:28:00 +0000

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:14:13 +0000

C++ is not that hard to pick up. But writing error free C++ code is hard as hell.

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:21:16 +0000

Well, readability, better typesafety, less undefined behaviour. In and out parameters, named parameters. Built in concurrency.

With C++ it's just too easy to make mistakes.

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:47:58 +0000

It's not quite there yet: https://ferrocene.dev/en?ref=blog.pictor.us

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:43:34 +0000

That probably would see more success than the monster they've created. I've been out of the C++ world for a while, but I hardly recognize the language anymore.

New comment by zeroc8 in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zeroc8 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:12:37 +0000

Ada and especially Spark makes it a whole lot easier to produce correct software. That doesn't mean it automatically leads to better software. The programming language is just a small piece of the puzzle. But an important one.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Programming peaked"

zeroc8 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:23:58 +0000

Only if they found their own companies. Usually those decisions were already made for you.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

zeroc8 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:43:43 +0000

The layer in Go is much thinner, if I want to learn about a new concept or technology. Of course there is no magic, if you are willing to put the time in. The question is how much time is required.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

zeroc8 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:53:16 +0000

Java is ok for typical backend stuff, but Go doesn't hide things the way Java does. With Go, you actually learn what's going on, while with Java, you just learn your way around the various frameworks. As a programmer, I don't want that That said, my current company uses Spring Boot. It does its job, but it wouldn't be my top choice.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025"

zeroc8 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:16:42 +0000

Love it. What a fantastic show case for Go.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Free software scares normal people"

zeroc8 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:20:13 +0000

The brutalist style also meant that I didn't need a UI designer for my applications. With Delphi I was able to create great apps in a matter of days. And users loved them, because they were so snappy and well thought out. Nowadays it seems I need a UI designer to accomplish just about anything. And the resulting apps might look better but are worse when you are actually trying to accomplish work using them.

New comment by zeroc8 in "Was the UFO explosion in the 50s a wave of extraterrestrial surveillance?"

zeroc8 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:31:56 +0000

But the fact remains that people are seeing things or lights buzzing around the sky in a manner we cannot explain.