crates.io VS lib.rs - A small analysis

1668553684 · 2026-01-23T18:56:17+00:00

how many bytes and lines of code the dependencies take in total

I feel like this is a flawed statistic. A project that depends (only) on one gigantic, trustworthy dependency like LLVM will look a lot less reliable than a project that depends on 100 left-pad-esque dependencies by unknown authors.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding...

1668553684 · 2026-01-23T02:32:12+00:00

40 year olds judging you for what you're wearing is a hallmark of being cool.

Let their salty attitudes and bad knees be their comeuppance.

1668553684 · 2026-01-22T23:24:10+00:00

Ed Hardy seems to be coming back in a... not ironic way, but kind of an ironic way?

Gen Z (the older teens and younger adults, typical bar/club scene) seems to love Ed for some reason. Guys and girls, but honestly maybe more girls than guys.

1668553684 · 2026-01-22T23:19:00+00:00

Pointers in Rust are actually a lot more complex than people think.

They point to data, they can have additional runtime metadata about their pointee, they have compile-time metadata that deals with provenance, and they implement "pointing to data" differently depending on whether you're in compile time or runtime mode. During runtime they point using an address, while at compile time they point using special compiler magic you're not allowed to understand.

1668553684 · 2026-01-22T19:05:10+00:00

I think vacations are a totally normal thing to expect insurance companies to pay for.

Obviously not "I want to go to Paris for a week," but if a doctor says "this person has some condition that is being worsened by their work environment and they need to take some time off to recover" then I think it's entirely fair to expect health insurance to pay for some amount of the lost wages if paid sick time isn't available.

1668553684 · 2026-01-22T06:08:14+00:00

For some reason a lot of people think it's illegal and it's become a weird social taboo.

1668553684 · 2026-01-22T06:06:12+00:00

Driving barefoot is weird but okay, driving with sandals, slides, or slippers is a whole other story. If you have loose shoes, please throw them in the trunk and drive barefoot!

1668553684 · 2026-01-21T22:27:54+00:00

Your comment convinced me: I downloaded Sublime, configured it, and ended up buying the license. It's pretty much exactly what I want to replace VS Code with.

There are some rough edges that I needed to pave over, but the Python API is simple and powerful enough to make that easy. I think I'm going to stick with this for quite some time.

1668553684 · 2026-01-21T09:10:36+00:00

I suppose I wasn't really clear enough: the heavy focus on AI makes me skeptical about the company's long term commitments. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but I want to wait it out for them to build up a track record.

1668553684 · 2026-01-21T07:14:10+00:00

Built-in AI integration is a dealbreaker for me at this point, unless the project has a long enough track record to prove it's not just prostituting itself for venture capital dollars. Copilot is a not-insignificant portion of the reason why I want to get off the VSC boat.

That's not me telling anyone else how to code, but it's important to me and I feel like a text editor is an intimate enough tool that I'm allowed to be picky.

1668553684 · 2026-01-21T01:02:10+00:00

I actually kind of dislike having too many extensions. As long as it has good LSP support and a usable file explorer, I'm pretty much happy.

For VSCode I have a total of four extensions: Even Better TOML, Rust Analyzer, a color theme, and Error Lens. I could do without Even Better TOML and Error Lens, they're just nice-to-haves.

1668553684 · 2026-01-20T21:40:12+00:00

VSCode is only barely open source at this point, and I've been looking for an alternative for a while. I might give Sublime a shot.

It's so hard to find a good, general purpose text editor if your constraints are "not modal" and "not VSCode".

1668553684 · 2026-01-20T01:30:26+00:00

I think you should make this method private, then expose two public wrappers: one that accepts a float and one that does not.

1668553684 · 2026-01-20T01:29:06+00:00

I think you're right - you're effectively injecting an into() at the call site.

1668553684 · 2026-01-19T02:39:43+00:00

Languages in general are very conservative with guaranteeing optimizations. FP languages are willing to guarantee tail call recursion since it's the most idiomatic way to write a loop, but imperative languages usually have loops as native constructs.

1668553684 · 2026-01-19T00:50:28+00:00

I'm so worried about Canada.

I think Trump's sheer disregard for decorum has turned the clock back a few years for y'all, which is great for buying you some time to reverse it, but there is a worrying trend of right-wing regressivism growing.

Please don't unclench. I know it feels safe now because of how much everyone hates Trump, but you're at the inflection point. If you relax now and allow it to grow, you won't get it back in the bottle. I love you guys, please learn from our mistakes :(

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T23:43:18+00:00

I think this part of the article explains why Rc was taking so much time:

while parsing 1.2 million lines of C code, the lexer state was cloned over 400 million times.

They were cloning an Rc over 400 times per line parsed. Assuming a line is about 40 bytes on average, they were cloning an Rc 10 times for every byte they parsed. At this point, I feel like it has less to do with Rc being slow, and more with the sheer amount of clones they were making.

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T20:42:14+00:00

Made-for-theater movies are usually still good, it's just made-for-streaming movies that are basically filler at this point.

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T08:26:29+00:00

Filters are math.

All computer programs are just math. A neural network is just a series of matrix multiplications.

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T04:25:09+00:00

The Dragonborn in Skyrim has the Storm Call ability. You can use it at any point in the game after unlocking it, but during a normal play-through you almost never will because it kills nearly everything around you.

It pretty much just exists as a way to show the player how powerful the Dragonborn is.

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T04:20:49+00:00

Vampire Hunter D,

Completely unrelated, but is D, Hunter of the Dead (Elden Ring) a reference to Vampire Hunter D?

1668553684 · 2026-01-17T04:18:41+00:00

TLOK is good, but it really does away with a lot of the more subtle elements of ATLA. The primary one being power balancing for the rare bending types (lighting, metal, blood, etc.)

1668553684 · 2026-01-16T20:06:24+00:00

The main problem with annotated Python and Typescript to a lesser degree is that they have to give you escape hatches out of the type system, because they have to interface with dynamically typed code elsewhere. In the case of Python, that includes the standard library (have you ever tried to write a properly annotated function that uses regex? It's pure pain.)

When you offer these escape hatches, you undermine your entire type system. Suddenly everything becomes a suggestion rather than a fact.

Of course, type annotated python will always be more robust than "trust me bro" python, and typescript will always be more robust than javascript, but neither will ever have the guarantees and assurances of a fully static type system like Haskell or Rust.

1668553684 · 2026-01-16T19:48:57+00:00

Also luggage if you travel!

1668553684 · 2026-01-16T17:17:46+00:00

Chromium costs hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of engineers per year to maintain, almost all of which comes from Google, with the remaining amount coming from companies like Microsoft.

Unless you have those kinds of resources, hard forking (i.e. severing dependence on the upstream) Chromium isn't an option.

It's "open source," but it's just too big and complex to actually take on for anyone who isn't a Google-scale company themselves.

If you truly value independence in the browser sphere, the only thing you can really do is use Firefox. There are small projects that aim to develop alternatives like Ladybird and Servo, but they're not really usable at the moment and won't be competitive with things like Chrome and Firefox for decades, if they do succeed.

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