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andrewrk

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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation. Jack of all trades, master of one.

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b0rk, to random
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I think a lot about how

  1. a lot of command line UIs are kind of bad
  2. building better UIs is great
  3. but taking the time to get comfortable with a bad UI has often really paid off for me
  4. I'll often keep using an older tool with a worse UI because it's more stable, or more actively maintained, or has more features, or has more examples available, or my friends use it
  5. it's still important to acknowledge that the UI is in fact bad even if I'm pretty comfortable with it now
andrewrk,
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mine would be something like, "git, you know what happens when you act like this. This is for your own good. This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you"

(followed by rm -rf ... && git clone ...)

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good riddance to everybody who doesn't use zig because they want unused variables in their code.

I hate reading your code, and I've constructed a life for myself where I don't have to anymore.

every time you complain, I celebrate my life achievement.

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dude come on.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/19636#issuecomment-2052642113

fix your damn web servers, openssl

andrewrk,
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watch me 😈

andrewrk, to random
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my take on redis changing its license: https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html

danluu, to random
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How web bloat impacts users with slow devices:

https://danluu.com/slow-device/

andrewrk,
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@danluu I really enjoyed this post. Thank you for putting it together.

I think you might find the new zig standard library documentation web app interesting, since I made the controversial decision to have it fetch all the source code up front and then do all the content rendering locally. In theory, this is CPU intensive but in practice... even those old phones have really fast CPUs!

https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/std/

I'm curious how it fares with those old phones you have.

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ZSF is launching a fundraiser today. As part of it, I put together some charts along with a 2023 financial report that I think you will find interesting:

https://ziglang.org/news/2024-financials/#2024-financial-report-and-fundraiser

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c++ users keep whining about not having RAII in zig, meanwhile I'm striving to eliminate all forms of non-batched destruction from my codebases. good luck doing that in c++

andrewrk, to random
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Bounties damage open source projects.

https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-projects/

andrewrk,
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The details from the github issue may be interesting but they're not being presented as evidence for the claims in the blog post. I think the generalization applies.

andrewrk, to random
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Looking forward to the next Zig Showtime episode:

A new terminal emulator written in Zig by Mitchell Hashimoto

https://zig.show/episodes/32/

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why NixOS rules in one screenshot

andrewrk, to random
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I wish @signalapp would stop doing this bullshit I'm just trying to text my wife about what we're going to eat today

andrewrk, to random
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we are on track for resolving 1,000+ issues during the 0.11.0 release cycle of Zig

polyphanes, to random
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behold, the true purpose of an ergonomic split keyboard

andrewrk,
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@polyphanes can confirm

andrewrk, to random
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perf data point for zig 0.10.1 vs the upcoming 0.11.0 release, building my tetris demo from source

andrewrk, to random
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I'm feeling oddly compelled to write a competitor to hyperfine, and I'm gonna live stream its birth now

https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok/

andrewrk,
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done! this was created and initial version released in the same 5.5 hour stream:

https://github.com/andrewrk/poop

andrewrk, to random
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showerthought:

I am thankful for the optimists of the world.

I understand that skepticism is appropriate and warranted, distrust and wariness are healthy.

But it's because of the tiny percent of people who are optimistic enough to donate money that I can work on Zig full-time instead of slaving away at a soulless corporation.

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