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I think the argument is that if you're depending heavily on a "batteries included" standard library of a high-level language, you in fact aren't really building it yourself.

Maybe rebranding GitHub Sponsors as not just a means of giving money but one-off "thank you" messages would be a decent approach to encouraging gratitude in open source.

Big man Chad, comin' through.

I'm actually confused if this site was created ironically.

* "Google search is malicious, send the same data to Russia with Yandex instead."

* Apparently Google Chrome is a search engine.

* "Google doesn’t care about users’ privacy that much. It collects your data and uses it for their own purposes." Might just be me, but this reads like a throwaway essay written by an 8th grader.

* The site uses Google Analytics.

Despite the clear lack of quality in this article, it seems like this type of post does well on HN simply because "Google == bad" is such low-hanging fruit.

Have any projections been made on the net effect on the environment of EFFORCE? It seems a bit ironic to me that a project laser-focused on energy efficiency depends on blockchain, which massively contributes to electricity consumption and carbon emissions.

Awesome project! I've spend some time on sites like Keyhero and 10fastfingers since I really enjoy typing, but sites like those ultimately feel time sinks since there's very little to gain after you reach a decent WPM. This site feels meaningfully different since I get exposed to the literature as I'm typing. From a quick glance it looks like the UI is really clean and the text is easy to read. I'm looking forward to using your site in my free time.

Maybe this is an ignorant question, but how exactly is Rust influenced by web dev? I don't see how the aspects that make Rust popular (ownership, lifetimes, strong type system etc.) contribute much to web dev in particular. Languages used for the web like JS, Python, Ruby seem popular precisely because they abstract lower-level details.

A bit of a tangent, but I think it would be worth distinguishing between vim-as-the-text-editor and vim-as-the-keybindings. For me, the value of vim comes from how quickly I can manipulate text, not necessarily that I can use a text editor in the terminal.

For bigger projects, I mostly use VSCode (and used IntelliJ in the past) but with vim bindings turned on. Because of this, I feel it's a bit difficult to compare the popularity of something like VSCode and Vim.

I'm not quite sure how this is even remotely an expectation.

This is a fascinating blog series. I've been dabbling in Rust lately and really appreciate how powerful and helpful the compiler is even to beginners.

> Due to recent changes at Mozilla my time working on the Rust compiler is drawing to a close.

This sort of statement makes me a bit worried though. I don't mean to echo what a lot of the community has said over the past month, but I really hope that development on Rust doesn't stagnate because of the layoffs.

I think it's interesting that there's some periodicity in the graph showing the "Share of US Spotify top 200 streams going to top 40 songs" where the share spikes during each summer. I have no substantive conclusions about this, just thought it was worth pointing out.

That's an interesting take, but I don't think the explanation could be so simple as "just that". It looks like the graph in the article showing the share of streams toward top songs has been trending downward long before COVID.

I've heard of a similar situation as well. It's a common saying here to never become somebody's hoshonin (guarantor), no matter who it is you're helping out.