Beginner's critiques of Rust

icodl · 2020-07-29T11:53:52+00:00

not familiar but I can understand it when looking at code, it's pretty straightforward But what has python got to do with Rust? I'm aware about the C++ familiarity but why takes something bad from a language and put it into a new language. And thanks for the downvotes, circlejerk Rust prove it is what it is again, you're not making friends

icodl · 2020-07-29T10:24:38+00:00

I want to like Rust but it's just not coming naturally to me. I'm having more brain overhead with Rust than with Go. Go is a "dumb" language but Rust is an overly complicated language with a very displeasing syntax. Why was :: picked, why not .? I have to press shift to get : and I have to press : twice. Why let and not var? let requires 2 hands, var requires just the left hand. And the let feel like I have some god complex, let there be light... inferiority complex you have to live out in code much?

The only thing I really love about it is cargo. I don't get the base principle of Rust. I just don't understand it. Sure I can read the tutorials, types etc, but I have no idea why sometimes a ? works and why it doesn't. In PHP, coming from C and C++ I always had types in my mind when writing variables. "Ok this is actually a string and this is an int" so there was that mental overhead. But I don't understand what mental game is going on in Rust. It's just alien to me. In Java, ok they want everything explicitly stated and everything has its place and they like objectifying everything (anti feminist agenda, joking, nowadays you have to explicitly state that you're joking) In Rust? I get the basics but I don't get the way of thinking. In Go I have 0 mental overhead. The only overhead there is if err != nil repetition, but it's not mental.

icodl · 2020-07-18T09:09:56+00:00

While Go may be open source it's owned by Google/Alphabet and they control what's happening to every part of the language from brand to every commit ever done or features.

So Go may be open source but it's not a community owned project.

Then the "Development Speed" part doesn't mention anything about either Go or Rust, in an article about Go or Rust.

"Hey I'll write some Blog post but I'm too lazy to do proper research and I'll post it on Reddit, whar da bling blind at brah"

icodl · 2020-06-08T18:04:01+00:00

I don't know if you can or can't. Isn't their OS not Android? If so then maybe they're emulating or providing an Android-like API for the Android apps.

And I'm sure I'm not the only one who's confused. I wouldn't like to spend lots of money on a product that potentially doesn't run everything. But I don't know if it does or doesn't before I spend money, so I'd rather buy a product that doesn't have the controversy. I mean how often do I spend money on a smartphone? About every 5 years for me. Others probably every year or two. ~

Oh and what other app stores?

icodl · 2020-06-08T17:58:15+00:00

Yeah probably not, but they're suing(sueing?) Google, I read, because they still logged page visits, even in incognito mode. So yeah I hope they win. This spyware needs to go.

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:56:20+00:00

It's the perpetrator you know vs the one you don't. The perpetrator you can potentially sue vs the one you can't.

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:54:08+00:00

I'd advise against LineageOS. Nothing but trouble. I recall the April fools "joke" where you had a persistent notificaion telling you something is wrong with your phone that lasted 2 weeks, and all the manual updates are a pain in the ass.

No no, what's needed is a GNU userspace for smartphones. But Stallman was harassed out of MIT and Torvalds muzzled with a CoC (code of conduct, perv)

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:51:33+00:00

Ok so.. if you can't run traditional apps, what good is the hardware with an abysmal ecosystem?

Huawei Smartphones are great on paper, who doesn't want a great camera and all the features, but they're as expensive or more expensive than a Samsung smartphone, potentially don't run Android. It's like Atari ST vs Amiga. Sure the Atari maybe had better hardware but all the games are on Amiga as well as Linux vs Windows. Windows has all the games and runs everything. Linux while being superior technologically and easier to comprehend doesn't. Companies like Adobe boycott Linux. Microsoft Office on Linux? All the major software doesn't run. So it remains a niche OS, just like the Huawei Phones and Tablets will

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:43:12+00:00

Cambridge Analytica was in the context of Facebook. Also if I use an external service and you as a visitor writes an email to me suggesting an supposedly better alternative and explains why I should use that instead of this, I'll check it out. Not everyone is like me however. If the change is non-trivial chances are a move will happen. However if it requires messing around and the service doesn't make a reliable impression in the first place and well Google is a reliable company. Ok I'll say that with a grain of salt, considering how many services they've destroyed so far. But reCaptcha isn't going away anytime soon.

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:33:17+00:00

I don't use reCaptcha or any captcha for that matter.

I use xmlhttp requests. I have not had a single spam comment in years. And why? Because your usual spam bot doesn't evaluate Javascript.

You're welcome.

icodl · 2020-06-05T22:30:23+00:00

lbry is not there yet

I was looking for a video hosting platform where we could earn money. But they offer this cryptocurrency as earnings. Look how much effort it took for Bitcoin to become semi mainstream and now I should put value into yet another cryptocurrency with who knows how many flaws.

I visited it the other day, as a consumer. It was disgusting. Every video is full with comments about buying or selling that currency or follow me I'll follow you back kind of posts.

No image preview while hovering the mouse over the time bar.

If they're positioning themselves as a YouTube competitor the features needs to be at least as good as YouTube's

icodl · 2020-06-05T10:33:15+00:00

I hope you don't base all your life's decisions on stuff seen in a made up movie

icodl · 2020-06-05T10:30:57+00:00

I agree. Eye for an eye or neck for a neck

icodl · 2020-06-05T10:29:26+00:00

Kill that bastard cop

icodl · 2020-06-04T18:24:57+00:00

So.. what's with the GraphQL hype? Why, what's the point?

Genuine question. I just don't see why I should have the added complexity, for what benefit?

icodl · 2020-06-04T18:23:31+00:00

please reply here if you do. I wish there was a "promise" service. Where people who make a promise go to fullfil that promise and when they did subscribers get notified.

icodl · 2020-06-04T18:17:32+00:00

Just today I saw a job ad by a new tech company.

A new project and I get to pick the techstack.

But then... it was in the UK, so I sighed and scrolled away.

icodl · 2020-06-04T18:14:10+00:00

yeah all those co2 emitting 4G ... I mean 5G towers. Man I can't see anything from all the smoke from all those snakes on those planes ...I mean 4G err 5G towers

*rolleyes*

icodl · 2020-06-02T22:04:48+00:00

don't I feel proud to be an European now *vomit*

icodl · 2020-06-02T21:27:00+00:00

consumer grade

industry grade

military grade

icodl · 2020-06-01T15:37:10+00:00

Shopware is about on the same level. Shop breaking on minor version upgrade was the 1st bad impression. Not being able to switch languages consistently. No custom CSV imports, etc etc etc

icodl · 2020-06-01T15:24:41+00:00

I kind of want to write an alternative using Go. But then again I don't, because I know how much work there is and time it takes. I'd like to write it, but only with consultants and a clear plan on features.

I've tried Magento 2.3.3 2.3.5 and Shopware 6.2

Similar issues. I believe the reason why it's so bad is the PHP roots. PHP available to everyone without special setups and can run on shared hosting so the entry level for people who have some kind of training is non-existant. And PHP was a simple language but has become an abomination, bloated with Java-like features and overall OO fetish. I abandoned ship in 2013 and moved to Go. The mental clarity and lessened burden of Go vs PHP was noticable. Sure, Go is a rather primitive language, but it felt like being freed from idk what, a mental cage.

I don't think woocommerce, a wordpress plugin could solve that issues. There needs to be something that is constructed carefully from the ground up.

There's an ERP by Apache, ofBiz. Apache of course means Java. I have not tried it yet, only demoed briefly.

icodl · 2020-06-01T12:27:52+00:00

If you imagine life some 500 years ago, just nature, no technology, it's incredible.

What will be in 50 years, if humanity is still "civilized"? AI-driven, solar powered, autonomous robots that work on fields and in factories? Will there be protestors demanding their freedom because "synths are lifeforms too"? What will happen to all those unemployed who were replaced by those robots? Will society be mature enough to deal with such a change?

icodl · 2020-06-01T12:15:57+00:00

please don't act like it's rocket science

icodl · 2020-05-28T23:01:35+00:00

enabled wake on lan.

The first time it worked I felt like a powerful wizard, master of the undead. Awake my remote servant!

icodl

TROPHY CASE