Comment on: Mozilla just announced their intent to deprecate so called XUL-based add-ons in favor of what they call the WebExtensions API within the next year or two
0 22 Aug 2015 18:03 u/iopq in v/programmingComment on: I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.
The local police don't like people evading the Great Firewall of China
Comment on: Github disables repository for using the word "retard."
Nobody will ever take moderate rouge! I will use as much rouge as I want...
Comment on: Github disables repository for using the word "retard."
Except when they waste your time by submitting pull requests about "master/slave" being offensive terminology
Comment on: Github disables repository for using the word "retard."
What the fuck? The thread is delisted on Reddit's /r/programming, and I can't find it on HN either. Voat is becoming the ONLY place where I can find discussion about things that I really care about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3f07ur/github_disables_repository_for_using_the_word/
where are these?
Comment on: What programming language changed your outlook on creating software?
C++ is still under development, Haskell is still under development, Swift is still under development, Go is still under development...
Start writing things in it now, you can just update your code later to be better, it already has a stability guarantee (1.0 is out)
Comment on: What programming language changed your outlook on creating software?
Rust. It shows you can have a high level language without sacrificing performance or memory safety. It's bridging the gap between systems programming and functional programming - you CAN write the efficient algorithms with mutability and then build high level abstractions using them. Also Cargo is really really nice, I will never compile anything in C or C++ ever again if I can help it.
Comment on: Announcing Rust 1.0
Rust supports pointers with the * symbol, but that's for C interop. I would still call @ a reference because you can't do pointer arithmetic with it.
Comment on: The Rust Code of Conduct contains this
I guess you've never been to San Francisco. You'd get ostracized if you're not like that. Oh wait, Brendan Eich already was, he was forced to step down as CEO because of being against gay marriage in 2008. As in, when Obama and Hillary were against gay marriage.
I even support gay marriage and think the whole culture of San Francisco is crazy.
Comment on: The Rust Code of Conduct contains this
Forget it, Steve Klabnik is a huge SJW and will bring politics into technical discussions and then all the members of the team will swarm on you linking to the code of conduct against "discrimination" when you don't want to be talking about politics on the Rust repo issues.
Comment on: Announcing Rust 1.0
It was still reference counting, so not really anything different than Rc now
Comment on: Announcing Rust 1.0
It never had proper garbage collection, only reference counting that was called Gc.
You know, if they eliminate XUL legacy crap, they can implement the WebExtensions API in Servo. This means Servo would actually become usable for browsing the web.