www.gov.uk/guidance/sty... @predr.ag the UK government has an official position that breaking changes are not broadly understood.

today's Debord shitpost which is also actually straightforwardly true: "the borrow checker is not a collection of lifetime rules, but rather a social relation between programmers mediated by lifetime rules"

the isaac chotiner of distributed systems jepsen.io/analyses/nat...

we gotta do something about cmake dawg,

"i did everything right, and they compiler-error'd me"

SHAAAW!

the worst ever socialist party from britain never settled on a name

Secret FORTH option? Gotta make sure all the cool up-and-coming languages are supported

I wrote "secret forth option: " in a README file, but then didn't fill it in, and looking at in now i have no clue what I could've been. I guess it'll remain a secret.

Words of wisdom: it's not a performance regression if the faster code was incorrect.

if rust is sooo good why don't they make a rust2...

Mountain Goats in london somehow already sold out :’(

What was the first compiler to use the naming convention of “Kind” to name a sum type in its IR? E.G. struct Expr(Span, Ty, ExprKind); enum ExprKind { Variable(…), Literal(…), BinOp(…), }

What was the first compiler to use the naming convention of “Kind” to name a sum type in its IR? E.G. struct Expr(Span, Ty, ExprKind); enum ExprKind { Variable(…), Literal(…), BinOp(…), }

Tired: Spotify Wrapped Inspired: Cloudflare Unwrapped Jokes aside, remember to #hugops. Nobody is immune from mistakes, and dealing with this stuff is really stressful.

They’re using all of them to build new messaging apps

upcoming five hour youtube video about bjarne stroustrop

clearly what rust needs is a Northernlion endorsement

longest requested rustdoc-json feature (i think?) has a very WIP implementation: github.com/rust-lang/ru...

longest requested rustdoc-json feature (i think?) has a very WIP implementation: github.com/rust-lang/ru...

so sad how expensive transitioning is becoming in america 😔. glad zohran could raise enough for it, but many of us arnt so lucky.

objective, vast, and endless: pick 3

gnu vast-and-endless-sea compiler

"You're telling me that once I'm a systems engineer, I'll know when to allocate and free memory?" "No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."

answer via mastodon, which apparently has more type theorists: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

come to rust, it's ok if you panic whenever you think about trying to change who you are while everyone is watching, that's what RefCell is for

probably several of these

is there any research into languages that treat conditional compilation as part of typechecking, rather than something that happens at latest shortly after parsing? i.e. one where the compiler can check both unix-only and windows-only code in the same build.

observation: Rustdoc as the start of a sentence seems fine. Rustc on the other hand seems viscerally wrong. rustc is the only way to capitalize that. rustdoc is also acceptable here, but not required.

the cishet monogamous git merges vs transgender polyamorous jj merges

idk, the beef looks pretty two-sided to me

learning to care about baseball just in time to get crushed by baseball

@jamesmunns.com what ended up happening with postcard (the library) v2.0?

she HLOOKUP on my VLOOKUP till i XLOOKUP

fun? fact: when talking about this with a friend, i assumed the convention of using RBC for Red Blue Cloud, and he used RBC for Rain Balloon Cloud, to much confusion.

“Sam Altman” as a name is kinda kojima-coded

has KRAZAM sold out, or is their latest video actually good actually? the greatest topic in group chat history, banned by admin after 975258 messages of heated debate

Happy 10 year anniversary to this tweet! Has memory safety in C++ been solved yet? x.com/CppCon/statu...

It is entirely possible that Rust’s greatest legacy won’t be anything to do with safety but that it did for sum types what JavaScript did for closures.

old-skool supply chain attacker: kids these days can’t even steal /etc/shaddow, all they know is hotpatch window.fetch, get installed by dependabot and mine

can’t wait for the mastodon thread that reveals that like every other “new” idea in computing, 10GB of node_modules written by strangers thieves and spies was somehow also invented by IBM in the 70s

evergreen

double de-clutching my gynephilia

@tangled.sh can easily dethrown github if it adds more emoji options like 🫡 and 🤮

There is no lowercase j on the London Underground.

introducing my new publication Business Outsider: we don’t really know how companies work