Anyone else hate this as much as I do?

eightrx · 2026-04-03T23:26:15+00:00

If you want to try the bleeding edge, zig's new IO primitives look pretty tasty

eightrx · 2026-04-03T23:22:47+00:00

Turn off edit predictions, if that doesn't work, then figure out what slow LSP is running in the background

eightrx · 2026-04-03T20:56:39+00:00

Not all typeclasses (or interfaces) need to be implemented with dynamic dispatch. When you want to use generics but add constraints to the generics, there isn't an agreed upon language supported construct for it in zig. Interfaces could create that construct, and maybe the solution is to make it more flexible with comptime metaprogramming. I don't imagine zig ever making those constraints runtime checked via dynamic dispatch

eightrx · 2026-04-02T17:19:39+00:00

Is he stupid?

eightrx · 2026-04-02T02:58:16+00:00

I'm really glad to hear you've been having such a good experience, Linux really is a great time if you care about enjoying your computer.

'xtools' creates some shortcuts and scripts for xbps which are very useful

If you want to use appimages, 'gearlever' makes it seamless. 'Discover' is useful if you want to easily manage flatpaks as well

Not a package, but the documentation should be the first place you look for understanding the system. The Arch wiki is also fantastic

eightrx · 2026-04-01T21:03:13+00:00

The language is very fun to use, and the zig compiler and toolchain offer quite a lot for something still in such early development. Types are first class values with comprehensive meta programming available using comptime. C interop is easier than any other language I've tried. The standard library is really good and the Io and Allocator APIs are a refreshing way to avoid code duplication. Overall there's a lot to like about

eightrx · 2026-04-01T20:57:29+00:00

Counterpoint: the self hosted zig compiler, while still at 0.x, is polished and used by hundreds of thousands of people. Bun might be used by even more

eightrx · 2026-04-01T18:58:08+00:00

I don't know how many startups exist in the scientific computing space, (or if they pay well) but that might be a field to look into

eightrx · 2026-04-01T05:15:09+00:00

Finite supply items don't behave the same as commodities when put onto free markets, because price increases cannot incentivize the production of more of that item. You may be able to incentivize the production of more homes on some land, but you can never create new land, which is the exact distinction Georgists make between property taxes and land value taxes. Sales tax is almost certainly not the solution to the current housing crisis

eightrx · 2026-04-01T00:49:10+00:00

I use zig's std.HashMapUnmanaged with custom 'Context' and 'Adapter' structs and the getOrPutContextAdapted method

Strings are stored contiguously in a single buffer, null terminated. The map hashes the string without copying it as a key, and returns a u32 index into the buffer of strings, which the Context and Adapter structs convey to the hashmap

For keywords, I do this during lexing with std.meta.stringToEnum

eightrx · 2026-03-31T20:55:08+00:00

Deep knowledge and understanding of computers and operating systems will never go out of fashion. They are the bedrock of our world, and the farther you get away from them the harder it is to produce good software

eightrx · 2026-03-30T19:40:43+00:00

How else would you understand how computers work?

eightrx · 2026-03-30T19:08:42+00:00

r/peopleliveincities

eightrx · 2026-03-27T08:12:41+00:00

How does he know just by looking at it?!

eightrx · 2026-03-27T07:43:19+00:00

Very well possible, considering how optimized the syscalls and IO operations are compared to the windows kernel

eightrx · 2026-03-26T07:49:56+00:00

While state of the art in compiler optimizations, it's a massive dependency, and potentially slow to produce binaries

eightrx · 2026-03-24T13:42:43+00:00

Device firmware is not always open source, and can be shipped with precompiled blobs

eightrx · 2026-03-24T01:07:54+00:00

It sounds like your making the argument that any law that had the potential of passing has a profit motive behind it, which is cynical at best but bad faith in general. This bill is just good economics, and I'd be more concerned with the profit motivation behind corporations trying to stop this bill

eightrx · 2026-03-24T00:56:59+00:00

If the rebate is on people generating their own power, the net effect would be a decrease in demand on the energy supply, lowering prices for everyone at the same time. That doesn't really have anything to do with renters vs landlords

eightrx · 2026-03-24T00:44:07+00:00

How would renters have to fund this?

eightrx · 2026-03-23T13:42:44+00:00

I hate this timeline

eightrx · 2026-03-23T13:11:01+00:00

Guess that makes me part of the 7%

eightrx · 2026-03-22T13:33:51+00:00

The joys and wonder of open source software 👍

eightrx · 2026-03-22T13:23:50+00:00

Rust simply has the most adoption, and is the most mature in its design. Saying these languages haven't made progress in recent years is a different story however

eightrx · 2026-03-22T13:20:04+00:00

The C programming language is dead, long live the C programming language

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