ceteia

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Comment · 8 months ago

But can't you then set up a system such that if a person only picks one source or a few sources, and that turns out to be bad, that it primarily impacts negatively only themselves? Letting it be their own responsibility?

Comment · 8 months ago

Nitpicking:

https://github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c/blob/4ebfe8...

Should that type have been mah_acci instead of int? mah_acci doesn't seem to be used anywhere.

Also, have you considered using (edit) designated initializer syntax for some of the function calls that take in structs as arguments?

https://cppreference.com/w/c/language/struct_initialization....

    struct mah_scale scale = mah_get_scale(
        (struct mah_note) {
            .tone=MAH_C,
            .acci=MAH_NATURAL,
            .pitch=4
        },
        &MAH_BLUES_SCALE, notes,
        MAH_ASCEND,
        NULL
    );

Comment · 8 months ago

Would educating people instead and giving them more options for information, not be better than banning access to information?

Comment · 8 months ago

Enum matching is one of the better aspects of Rust.

Comment · 8 months ago

> When I update the rust compiler, I do so with very little fear. My code will still work. The rust stdlib backwards compatible story has been very solid.

This is not always true, as seen with rustc 1.80 and the time crate. While it only changed type inference, that still caused some projects like Nix a lot of trouble.

Comment · 8 months ago

Indeed, unsafe Rust is overall more difficult than C++, like one speaker at a Rust conference claimed: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/1/30/unsafe-rust/

And you are not being honest nor accurate here.

Comment · 8 months ago

Not Firefox, but Servo has quite a lot of unsafe, even though some of the results are false positives.

https://grep.app/search?f.repo=servo%2Fservo&f.repo.pattern=...

So Servo at the very least cannot be said to be 'safe'. And I believe the Rust code in Firefox is similar.