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Comment · 3 months ago
Plenty of 'advances in mathematics' done pre-llm, no?
Comment · 3 months ago
Grad students on zero pay solve problems like this everyday. What exactly is your point here?
Comment · 4 months ago
unsafe?
Comment · 4 months ago
Almost like how RAII in C++ does it?
Comment · 4 months ago
I'd like to see an example
Comment · 10 months ago
> Considering LLVM is 23 years old already. I wonder if something new again will pop up

LLVM is actually really really good at what it does (compiling c/c++ code). Not perfect, but good enough that it would take tens of thousands of competent man hours to match it

Comment · 10 months ago
> or is 8Gb no longer workable

llvm compiles in less than an hour on my old m1 mac in all the build configurations I have tried so far

Comment · 1 year ago
1000x less performance is a bigger clusterfuck
Comment · 1 year ago
> But most of the other arguments they list can be picked apart and are only half true

I'd like to see you pick the other arguments apart

Comment · 1 year ago
"Here’s a real example: a user signs in with an email and password. That flow touches three services, each with a single responsibility:

EmailService::Normalizer strips and downcases the email UserService::Authenticator checks credentials SessionService::Creator creates a session"

Don't know how to say this without sounding arrogant. WTF?

Comment · 1 year ago
No. Its built atop rust iirc
Comment · 1 year ago
Rust makes it hard to represent mutable graphs. If I have a value that can be updated by multiple GUI nodes, I have to architect my way around the borrow checker in Rust. Is it safe? yes. Is is performant? for a skilled Rust dev, yes. But it takes me >25% more time to do compared to C++. 25% of a year long project is 3 months
Comment · 1 year ago
> I'm still not seeing any description of specific challenges you feel are harder in Rust than in C/C++

It's harder to model domains in Rust. C has the same problem and it is a big reason why the industry standard for game dev is C++

Comment · 1 year ago
> I believe it's (LLVM) far too slow at compiling and far too big to be fixed from the inside

What are you doing to make sure Tilde does not end up like this?

Comment · 2 years ago
Nice read

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