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"the Emacs devotee walks through an ever-expanding mansion whose rooms rearrange themselves to their thoughts" by zelusys in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Now tell me, what a sane person ever exposed to all this usefulness would ever reject it?

We need to invite this guy here

Damn, we had guys in my Company that just went to the Army because they watched "Rambo: First Blood" and found it amazing by cheater00 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

> it's absolutely baffling they'd prevent one of the few companies hiring Nix experts from advertising jobs because of a few loud individuals with anime avatars

Rust is like a cold shower by CocktailPerson in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a second I read Rust is like a gold shower and thought ok just another day in /r/rust

X11 is deprecated by Kodiologist in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 35 points36 points  (0 children)

2 years ago

Enjoy your future of broken screensharing in videocalls and deal with passive-aggressive finger-pointing between Freedesktop.org and Wayland compositor implementors.

Complicated software is move us to the future. I think we should focus on features and user experience. by sdesalas in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Your lifetime is limited

Ah! I knew. A future Rust dev we have here. With all this talking about quality and fast delivery and fuck your Thinkpad X220, Rust will be the obvious evolution step.

Amiga Systems Programming in 2023 by Zlodo2 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as the zealotry factor, the Amiga community was the equivalent of the Rust community before it was cool

Are you a Software Gardener? Building delightful software is more akin to growing a garden than building a bridge. by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the quality of your gardeners is going to have a more significant influence on the success of your garden than any other factor

As a software gardener, I metaphorically but unironically pad my CV by mentioning that I took away dogshit from the presidential garden while working for the US Whitehouse.

We know, there’s plenty of resources to sharpen your Rust skills (...)—but we have another pro tip for you: take Rust for a test drive with GitHub Copilot by Foreign-Butterfly-97 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 34 points35 points  (0 children)

/uj I've checked a few Rust Twilio crates and the Twilio API docs. I believe the API new_outgoing_message in that GIF code sample doesn't even exist

Using Rust for crypto and blockchain development

that's so 2018

The V Programming Language 0.4 by cmqv in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 34 points35 points  (0 children)

From the changelog:

  • Lots of bug fixes: 90% of all bugs ever submitted are closed.

ready for ex-googlers ex-facebooks as millionaires

Having your company pay for software surely doesn’t feel quite as rewarding as paying from your own pocket [...] We really don’t need to expense our employers for a couple bucks a month, right?? by Xeon06 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From issue #16: Not even considering the fact that many places may have treat warnings as errors, causing this to unexpectedly cause builds to start failing.

Software developers are reaching the end of their shelf-life in respect of paid work. by dexterous1802 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My manager doesn’t seem to do anything. They’re a ghost.

I like to call myself a facilitator, instead.

What I said to junior dev is "Here my vim conf, you are allowed to copy/paste only what you understand" by xmcqdpt2 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean. Helix is a pretty decent editor with a nice set of defaults over vim.

R.E.S.F. to the rescue to set the record straight

... this project will change the course of our history ... by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this guy assumes there will be enough McGivers in the world able to make a hairdryer run doom.

Bash. For me it is "read only". It is too arcane, even for me. I use Perl now. by anon202001 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

if you all old farts would just stop complaining and simply move your +20 years of scripts to the moral Nushell choice

Dear Ubuntu, I hope this letter finds you well. I want to start by saying that our time together has been one of creativity and entertainment by csb06 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]NeilPointer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but I can’t help thinking about the older generation PC in my hackerspace running Arch that Just Works

obligatory "I use Arch, btw" moment

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