The Rust standard library documentation is great.

@anarchistbicycleclub "The pattern of activity mainly centers around an aggressive propaganda strategy distributing ‘promat’ (‘promotional materials’) pushing the group’s name, website, and white nationalist views. Members are required to submit proof of weekly ‘activism’ tasks and are criticized, scolded and punished when they fail to meet their expected quotas."

LOL do they do this without getting paid?? 🤣

@anarchistbicycleclub 'Patriot Front’s official ‘promat,’ such as stickers and flyers, can only be bought directly from leader Thomas Rousseau, who personally ships it to members. “If any of the prices seem above market rate,” wrote Rousseau in the group’s chat in July 2021, “it’s because it also goes toward paying for our servers, our digital accounts and subscriptions, and the food I can afford to eat.”'

🤣 🤣 🤣
Of course it's a grift

@lig Depending on Google for core infrastructure of your application is a really bad idea IMO. Unless you don't give a shit if it still exists in 5 years.

Oh dear... the Qt Company sure does seem to be going downhill... they're adding tools for advertising with Qt applications: https://www.qt.io/blog/monetizing-cross-platform-use-cases-faster-and-easier-with-qt-digital-advertising-platform

@brainblasted Hacker News is literally run by "startup incubator". How could it not be a capitalist hellhole?

@brainblasted Coding under strict time deadlines is silly... if that's what they value in applicants, I would expect the company to force workers to meet bullshit deadlines that don't actually matter for anything.

@polymerwitch C'mon there are tons of ideas out there in scifi and we get this?

@tychosoft @codeberg @civodul and what if someday someone makes a version control system that's better than Git?

@parasurv People still post bad takes about how Linux isn't good enough for some little reason that matters to them personally and completely ignore the elephant in the room.

"Desktop Linux needs to be pre-installed on retail hardware to succeed in the mainstream.

That’s it."

https://pointieststick.com/2021/12/09/what-desktop-linux-needs-to-succeed-in-the-mainstream/

@avalos Programming language are complicated.

@benjamin Mono is run by Microsoft.

@ascott Learn what interests you. It doesn't matter if it doesn't help you in your classes.

Whether it's Go, C#, or Swift, I don't think it's a great idea to write code in a programming language dominated by a single megacorporation.

@fnetX If you want more background on the social reasons, I could fill you in on that too.

@fnetX https://rust-audio.discourse.group/t/a-new-dj-application-in-rust/484

@meena @civodul Yep, just because the standard library exists and doesn't suck, doesn't mean external libraries can't do some its jobs better.

@meena @civodul The way asynchronous runtimes are decoupled from the standard asynchronous interfaces is a great example of this. It allows asynchronous code to be shared between a native Rust runtime like async-std or Tokio, and it also can be integrated with an external runtime like the GTK Rust bindings do.

@meena @civodul Doing something like this in C or C++ would be a nightmare. You can't just run QFutures on GTK's event loop.