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  • What are you talking about specifically? I’ve written C and C++ code and it’s terrible. UTF strings were an absolute pain, you needed Boost for the simplest things (though many things of boost have been assimilated in the standard), there are a thousand different ways to do simple things like iterating through iterables (again, things have changed in the standard), there’s no default dependency management, and so much more.

    Rust comes with dependency management, a way to write unit tests and integrations, generate docs, toggle features, has standard iterables, string handling, async, compiler targets, and a lot more things C and C++ could only dream of having.

    Don’t even get me started on zig which doesn’t have its own friggin string class / struct whatever.

    So again, I ask you, what are you referring to? Please provide examples.


  • Someone recently wrote an article about how susceptible WSL was to hacks and how it was an excellent attack vector because windows didn’t check it. It was on one of the cyber security communities on Lemmy.

    I dont have WSL but based on that article, I assume you can circumvent a lot of winblows crap in WSL. If you can run GUI apps all the better!


  • This article again. Drew Devault is a shitstirrer that lives from drama. Painting Louis Rossmann as a nazi, white supremacist, or monarchy supporter is just misinformation and I’d go as far to say that it’s slander. He has thousands of videos trying to hold the state accountable, is nearly rabidly pro-privacy and pro consumer rights, and rails on and on about how shitty big tech companies are that have their way with their consumers.

    I happen to agree with FUTO: the opensource licenses are not that great. Open source developers should get paid and if that means the definition of opensource has to evolve, so be it.

    We should stop treating the opensource definition like gospel and quoting it as if it were a religious text. We should think for ourselves, not let our thoughts be dictated to us and then just go “this person said it, so they are right”.

    FUTO funds great software. If that came out of the pocket of Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, I’d be happy ad it means less money going to whatever evil main endeavors they have. If a monarchist spends his fortune on opensource instead of raising a monarchy, fucking good. Don’t stop him. Demand he spends more.