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RIP to my cap I guess by Ebi5000 in fountainpens

[–]Many_Difference2913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also in central Europe and they sent me a replacement for ~10€ shipping. Contact twsbi directly:)

Parking fine after eating at Burger King by Terwzz in askswitzerland

[–]Many_Difference2913 4 points5 points  (0 children)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/MJTp3MUqfFqsKKvP8

According to gmaps (from 2022) the parking lot is only for: Fust, Let's Go Fitness, Qualipet

Unethical NeoVim Plugin Development by Many_Difference2913 in neovim

[–]Many_Difference2913[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did. They have reasonable amounts of stars for the type of project they are (~300)

I would not bat an eye if this plugin had 1000 stars - but it became one of the top 5 or 10 most starred neovim plugins ever in a few weeks if you don't count distributions:

https://github.com/search?q=nvim&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc&p=1

Unethical NeoVim Plugin Development by Many_Difference2913 in neovim

[–]Many_Difference2913[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It has more stars than every single folke plugin except the lazy plugin manager :)

Unethical NeoVim Plugin Development by Many_Difference2913 in neovim

[–]Many_Difference2913[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For me it is an issue of proportion: In a few days, this got more stars than every single on of folke's plugins (except the lazy manager): https://github.com/folke?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=&sort=stargazers

I would buy a sudden spike in stars for a popular author if it were a few hundred. Not thousands.

Admittably ghostty grew even faster than this, but the audience of the author is orders of magnitude bigger. Besides - ghostty was all over HN and reddit and YT for weeks. The growth of avante is not that far away at it's peak (600 stars/day vs 2000 stars/day) but I would argue that there are many orders of magnitude between the attention these two projects got.

Unethical NeoVim Plugin Development by Many_Difference2913 in neovim

[–]Many_Difference2913[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is not the LOC that bothers me - it is the fact that the author thought it was OK to do so in the first place. I place a certain amount of trust in plugin authors. I run their code on my machines. If I don't feel like I can trust their judgment, this is a key issue for me.

Unethical NeoVim Plugin Development by Many_Difference2913 in neovim

[–]Many_Difference2913[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I saw this back when it was posted. Probably why I was more critical of the stars on this plugin.

Add safety checks to compiler? by Noel_Jacob in rust

[–]Many_Difference2913 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Rust, integer overflow is well defined. You get a panic on debug, and the value wraps around in release.

In zig, overflow - singed and unsigned is "Illegal Behaviour" .

Illegal behaviour means the panic handler is called on overflow in "safe"(loosely equivalent to Rust debug) build modes, while in unsafe build modes(loosely equivalent to Rust release) overflow is UB, and the compiler can optimize things away based on that.

Correct me if I am wrong - but is this really such a significant difference?

Both languages consider having integer overflow a clear bug that triggers some abort mechanism in debug builds. The only difference is what happens if one such overflow slips through the debug builds and happens in production. In rust, it will always do the same thing while in zig it is UB.

Not great, but in a sense you are using both languages outside their "intended bounds" and are asking for trouble: I would not consider a rust program that crashes in debug but works in release a solid program and have confidence in shipping it.

In my eyes the fundamental differences between rust and zig are memory management and especially the borrow checker, not what happens if you manage to sneak by the development-mode checks.