ekuber

ekuber, 8 months ago to random

"You can say 'all are welcome,' but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you're only going to get wolves. The the smart sheep will go somewhere else and the naive sheep will be eaten and processed. [...] Refusing to choose is a choice. It's a choice in favor of the people who prey on others and who refuse to acknowledge the humanity of those they hate."

ekuber, 5 months ago to rust

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are conducting a research study on Rust errors and how we can help make it easier to learn #Rust. They made a VSCode extension, SALT, which includes a borrowing and ownership error visualizer. Opt-in, it can also send them data regarding the errors you’ve experienced while compiling; they plan to use that information to evaluate the impact of our extension as well as to give you feedback on your progress.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kale-lab.salt

ekuber, 11 months ago to rust

#Rust #RustLang https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/05/29/RustConf.html

ekuber, 3 months ago to rust

Regular reminder that if a #rust compiler error isn't clear, we consider that a bug. File a ticket! Worst case scenario it gets closed as a duplicate. Second worst it takes us a long time to get to them. But I assure you I've read every single open A-diagnostics ticket at least twice.

ekuber, 9 months ago to random

"When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong."
– Bill Hader

I couldn't have come up with such a succinct way to frame it. You need to listen to people complaining about problems, but don't over index on the solutions they propose.

ekuber, 11 months ago to rust

I love it when I get #Rust errors that I worked on and forgot about

ekuber, 3 months ago to random

Whenever the "free fare transit" conversation comes up in US circles, I am always peeved with the big problem of transit in the US: whether from the left or the right, everyone agrees "buses are for poor people", so it doesn't get proper funding so anyone using transit ends up waiting an hour at bus stops with no seating or shade next to 6 lanes or traffic and changing three lines to get where they need to, because "poor people's time is cheap and they don't care about quality".

ekuber, 10 months ago to random

Every time I'm halfway through a nasty rebase, I can hear the project's voice in my head: "I've altered the upstream, pray I do not alter it any further."

ekuber, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to rust

Meet Red Pen, a rudimentary #Rust linter: https://github.com/estebank/redpen
I cleaned things up to the point where you can actually use this, but it is v0.1 and I mean it. It most likely won't work when you first try it (linux only for now), but I'm really happy with the first useful lint it has: assert that a function cannot call panic.

PRs very welcome.

ekuber, 6 days ago to rust

"#Rust development is going too fast (because they are stabilizing features I don't care about) and going too slow (because they are not stabilizing features I care about!"

There are only so many #RustLang contributors, hours in a day, days in a year to get to everything now, and some features are reliant on other, less flashy work that needs to happen before they can be even attempted.

But people are putting in a lot of work, the codebase changes so quickly that it is hard to keep up.

ekuber, 1 month ago to random

Every time there's a CVE affecting some fundamental part of modern computing that Rust provides a dot-release for, it seems multiple publications find out first from the Rust blog and publish titles implying that Rust is the only affected thing. It's not only mildly annoying hearing the echos of "har, har, I thought it was 'safe'", it does a complete disservice to anyone that doesn't use Rust because they won't find out they have to update or mitigate the issue too!

ekuber, 25 days ago to rust

Rust's unexpected super-power is just how flexible it is. It allows you to write very high level looking code on a low level language. That caused people to use it beyond its intended niche. But it is fundamentally a low level programming language. It will continue becoming easier to use (that's my personal goal!) but there are "obvious" changes that would make things easier at the cost of speed or correctness that #Rust cannot take.
#RustLang

ekuber, 7 months ago to rust

The #Rust project on Mastodon: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust

ekuber, 7 months ago to rust

Hot take: #Rust is not the end-all be-all of languages. Other languages will come forth with improvements in multiple axes. I also think that it has made a lot of good choices on trade offs, but some of those make it harder than it could be. I think there's space for an EasyRust, that could be developed independently, but it could be part of the same existing codebase and leverage it as a testing ground for changes to Rust itself. You could even say that nightly is that language already.

ekuber, 3 months ago to rust

Please, don't extrapolate from a single #Rust job posting at Microsoft that they are "abandoning C#". That's not how that works. They are adopting Rust more and more, yes. Feel happy or dismayed about that, as you will. But disregard editorials trying to read the tealeaves about unrelated product roadmaps, including this one.

ekuber, 8 months ago to rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/22/crates-io-usage-policy-rfc.html
New policy likely to be adopted around crates.io name-squatting
#Rust #RustLang

ekuber, 3 months ago to random

"IO error", "couldn't write to file", "couldn't write to file '/tmp/foo-bar'", "couldn't write to document metadata file '/tmp/foo-bar' because the file already exists and their permissions dont permit this user to write to it; you can change the path with '--metadata-path=/path/to/file'" are all the same error and require approximately the same amount of effort to produce. Give your users the last one.

ekuber, 8 months ago to photography

#photography #SutroTower #moon
I wish I had increased the shutter speed with such a long lens (2x + 135mm @ 2.8) because it's not sharp, but like the composition.

ekuber, 24 days ago to random

"I will not engage in the Discourse. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will read the Discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

ekuber, 9 days ago to animals

#dogsofmastodon #photography

ekuber, 5 months ago to rust

Call for Proposals for the #Rust 2024 Edition
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/15/2024-Edition-CFP.html
#RustLang

ekuber, 10 months ago to rust

I'm super proud whenever a #Rust newcomer asks a question in a forum, and the response is "if we run the code you want, the compiler tells you this, which explains why it can't doesn't work", and then goes on to expand. I'm terribly against RTFM attitudes, but Read The Friendly Compiler Output should be a valid learning strategy.

ekuber, 3 months ago to rust

What would you take out of this #Rust diagnostic? Is this too much information? Would you prefer to have a shorter message at the cost of needing multiple cycles of the compiler telling you you're missing a change?

ekuber, 5 months ago to photography

#photography #nighyphotography #DeathValley