kalekold

Dwarf Fortress is awesome to come into today, give it a try. I started playing it a year ago and I love it.

The Nvidia Shield is the best thing I've ever bought. I love it. I hope Nvidia make a new one, because i'd buy it immediately.

> Go looks nice to work with but actually is a hidden monster full of footguns.

Really? Me and my team been using it for years with no problems whatsoever.

> I'm pretty sure Torvalds is the one who decided to add Rust to the Linux kernel.

No it really wasn't. He just said let's see how it goes when the rust devs proposed it.

> This is NOT because I hate Rust. While not my favourite language it's definitively one of the best new ones and I encourage people to use it for new projects where it fits. I do not want it anywhere near a huge C code base that I need to maintain.

Seems pretty clear cut to me.

Why do rust developers demand everything be re-written in their language? Especially one of the longest running, largest and most successful C projects of all time? It was never going to work out.

There are a few brand new operating systems being developed in rust, why not contribute to them instead?

> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired

This is such a bad take.

ctx.Value is incredibly useful for passing around context of api calls. We use it a lot, especially for logging such context values as locales, ids, client info, etc. We then use these context values when calling other services as headers so they gain the context around the original call too. Loggers in all services pluck out values from the context automatically when a log entry is created. It's a fantastic system and serves us well. e.g.

    log.WithContext(ctx).Errorf("....", err)

I'm not particularly impressed by Odin but maybe i'm not the audience. If you like strictly procedural languages (or a die hard C fan) it's probably fine but it feels like a 'My First Language™' kind of project.

What I really miss are methods on structs a'la Go. Just simple receivers would be a great addition imho. Because of this choice, it's affected the entire stdlib and boy does it look old. Creating a typed variable to pass it to a stdlib init function (for allocation, etc) is terrible decision and it's everywhere. The stdlib looks muddled too.

Odin is obviously heavily inspired by Go (among others) but it's learned nothing of the lessons of the Go authors. For example, Odin is a larger language and has fewer features.

I got an ICE while compiling once and it reported something like `TODO(bill) support this`. Not a good look.

lol

The 'end of the world' scenario isn't perhaps something that we expect. We always think the end of the world will be disease or natural cataclysm. Also, humanities curiosity can't help itself.

* Imagine AI giving a terrorist network a recipe for the most toxic nerve gas ever discovered. (This has already happened to AI researches)

* Imagine AI being used for deepfake propaganda inciting a war between superpowers. (This is arguably already in progress)

* or it could be the usual sci-fi classic of an AI intelligence becomes superior to humans and just takes over (using the above methods and more).

AI has the ability to be completely undetectable and incredibly insidious. We could be destroyed by a force we don't even notice.

Node is single threaded.

No more needs to be said after that.

This article is just a stealth extension of the so called 'open source sustainability crisis' argument.

Basically, it's just a bunch of people wanting to work on open source software and demanding to be paid for it. Like literally demanding you pay them for using their software!

I'll repeat here what I always say to them. If you demand to be paid for creating open source software, then maybe it's not for you because you don't seem to understand the license you added.