aaron-lebo

Unfortunately, no, your info about Perl 6 is news to me. Only ran into it a few months ago, tried it in Python and Nim, but haven't seen it in the wild. It's very cool though.

Understood. To be specific, they said Rust has the ergonomics of Python, Go, and Java, which are garbage collected languages. It does not strike me as realistic.

Goes without saying, but it is shocking how quickly the world has changed. The easy take would be that a lot of people are finding out how the other half lives, without easy access to healthcare or using credit cards to pay bills, but the poorer are disproportionately affected.

The only positive, if there is one, is the ability to really consider how our societies operate, how dangerous apathy and incompetence are and for tech workers more specifically, to realize how much of an impact our work has.

The next time someone wants to act like they know what the future looks like, remind them to have some humility. Be safe yall. This too shall pass.

Rust absolutely does not have the ergonomics of any of those languages because it has lifetimes. They are things you don't worry about in those languages.

Have you done a lot of Rust? I spent considerable time in Rust, and at the end of the day, after stepping away from it, I've found multiple options with the kind of ergonomics that make development a lot more productive for me.

Rust is not going to eat everything. I'd bet money on it. Rust will likely un quietly behind the scenes powering lots of great projects, but its audience is limited. I think HN really has a weak spot for understanding how few people even know what it is. I was surprised to ask a CS grad student that's done lots of machine learning about Rust, and he simply didn't know it existed. I like Rust and all that it taught me, but we need to be realistic about its ceiling and what it is appropriate for.

Not to advocate for one language over another, but sergio, you're right, Nim is ridiculously underrated and a much easier to use than rust. There's just a lot less mental overhead in almost anything and iteration is going to be much faster because lifetimes do get in the way.

Unfortunately this is one of those things where hype has kind of won out and I think a lot of people are dismissing an option like Nim simply because we're not talking about it on places like HN. Though, to be fair to Rust, the community is doing a lot of bleeding edge stuff that Nim's community just isn't big enough to.

It's been a decade, but a friend in a college town just north of Dallas had an off campus apt for $300 a month. I had an off campus apt much closer to everything for under $500, similarly a friend even closer had an apt for $500.

The prices are a lot cheaper in a lot of US metros than the tech centers.

Those that don't know what it is like to not be naturally happy in many cases may not understand how easy it is to get intoa bad headspace, and how vitally important it is to take the correct steps to prevent it. It is life-threatening stuff and even when it is not, it is disabling, hence the strategy.

You must not know many people with tattoos. ;)

You're reading it wrong. I'm saying that iterating on a nightly basis isn't difficult.

This is undoubtedly true. My point is, if you don't build, you can't do any of what you are laying out. My point isn't that you should recreate Instagram, but that these kind of apps and apps like it are not difficult. Virality is worth more than you think, and figuring out how to make 80k a year is much easier than trying to make a unicorn.

It took Twitter 10 years to increase the message size. It's not hard to incrementally do that as a single founder, you can probably make changes like it in a single night, and you can probably do that with a lot more ease than if yo've got a team and expectations.

I'm a nobody and I don't have any work that I'm ready to show you.

You shouldn't take my advice, I very well may not know what I'm talking about. I'm just laying down some beliefs I've got that I plan on testing out. You can't know if you've got a market fit unless you try. That's all I'm advocating.

People give advice on everything here every day, a lot of them won't tell you that they very well could be wrong, but I'm very aware I may be.