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Re:The [Rust] Core Team Is Toxic on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:55PM (#29503476)
There is no process to get rid of them.
Re:The [Rust] Core Team Is Toxic on Thursday December 09, 2021 @03:17PM (#29502377)
They aren't the "coders" of the Rust project.
Re:The [Rust] Core Team Is Toxic on Thursday December 09, 2021 @02:46PM (#29502004)
This is an important discussion to be had.
Re:Portable and Interoperable Async Rust on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:46AM (#29482466)
"Wenn man nicht mehr weiter weiß, gründet man einen Arbeitskreis." - Ancient German proverb. (Translation: "If you don't know what to do next, you set up a working group")
Re:Java 16 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:46AM (#26478366)
> Records (...) are borrowed from Scala.

I think records already existed in FORTRAN and other languages like ALGOL-60. C has structs, too.

Does Betteridge's law apply here?
Re:Loom EGA/VGA Comparison on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:43PM (#26448809)
I'm a big fan too.
Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:47PM (#16680888)
> Other packages managers use the opposite of minimal version selection. Many of them even have a don't make me thing command to update the whole dependency tree (e.g., `npm update`).

vgo does have that too: vgo get -u

Re:A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go on Monday March 26, 2018 @01:37PM (#16680782)
I feel like this is the package management equivalent to the shift from geocentrism to heliocentrism. Yes, you can approximately predict the movements of the planets with the geocentric model and lots of epicycles (Bundler/npm model), but it suddenly makes so much more sense and it's so much simpler if you assume the sun as the center of the solar system.
Re:Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8 on Saturday October 29, 2016 @04:07AM (#12823115)
Since the term is not defined anything can be considered a systems programming language.
Re:Sub-millisecond GC pauses in Go 1.8 on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:47AM (#12823072)
Wow, makes me want to develop a AAA game in Go.
Re:State of Rust Survey 2016 on Thursday June 30, 2016 @02:21PM (#12010611)
As many women as trans people (1.6%).
Re:The Opa Language on Saturday July 11, 2015 @04:41AM (#9869084)
Every German speaker will read this as "The Grandpa Language".
Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix on Sunday June 07, 2015 @10:51AM (#9674840)
> But if someone did a PowerShell-like thing on top of Node.js, I could see that taking off

I think it should also use React.

Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix on Sunday June 07, 2015 @10:12AM (#9674673)
Why not TOML?
Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:21AM (#9674531)
Why not Nimlang?
Re:Writing a website in Rust on Sunday May 31, 2015 @01:56AM (#9633250)
Yes, it's like anything else: the dose makes the poison.
Re:Writing a website in Rust on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:54PM (#9631326)
Yes, the Rails and Node communities are known for insanity.
Re:Writing a website in Rust on Saturday May 30, 2015 @02:48PM (#9631283)
63 dependency crates? That's insane.
Re:Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems (2008) [video] on Sunday September 28, 2014 @05:34PM (#8380969)
Who's the guy at the end saying "let's forget where I work and where you work", asking the "hard" question?
Re:Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems (2008) [video] on Sunday September 28, 2014 @05:08PM (#8380910)
> I don't hear much about any potential alternatives. So I'm curious about them.

Pike was talking about Plan 9. It was created by the research group that developed Unix as a more modern successor to Unix. From Wikipedia: "Plan 9 from Bell Labs was originally developed by members of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, the same group that originally developed UNIX and C. The Plan 9 team was initially led by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Dave Presotto and Phil Winterbottom, with support from Dennis Ritchie as head of the Computing Techniques Research Department. Over the years, many notable developers have contributed to the project including Brian Kernighan, Tom Duff, Doug McIlroy, Bjarne Stroustrup and Bruce Ellis."

Re:Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems (2008) [video] on Sunday September 28, 2014 @04:55PM (#8380879)
The Blit video he mentions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emh22gT5e9k

A similarly interesting talk by him on CSP-inspired languages (Occam, Erlang, Squeak, Newsqueak, Limbo, Alef, Go): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtUzH3zoFo

Slides (not shown in the video): http://go-lang.cat-v.org/talks/slides/emerging-languages-cam...

Interesting as well: From parellel to concurrent (on Sawzall and Go): http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...

Re:Average Income per Programming Language on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @06:19AM (#6249115)
LOL, even PHP programmers earn more than Haskell programmers.
Re:Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @11:14AM (#6244180)
Just out of curiosity: What interest could the NSA possibly have in Groklaw mails?
Re:Exploiting a Go Binary on Thursday May 16, 2013 @07:14AM (#5717920)
Non-executable heap and stack in Go 1.1 - nice!
Re:Why Go? on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:09AM (#5704315)
> see http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-code)

Uriel is dead. So don't link to cat-v.org as if it was an up-to-date resource.

Re:Go 1.1 is released on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @12:56AM (#5703078)
> a structure that has a pointer to the underlying data by value

Isn't this the exact definition of a reference type?

Re:A logo for the Internet: (#) on Sunday May 12, 2013 @12:27PM (#5694799)
What was wrong with the blue e?
Re:Go 1.1 beta 1 Released on Thursday April 04, 2013 @11:58AM (#5493363)
If it helps bringing these advantages to modern day programmers then I'm all for it. A lot has been lost during the 90's with the rise of C++ and Java.

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