I mean why else would you want to use C# when there's Rust 🦀 and all the awesome tooling and libraries around it...

I mean as the image obviously suggests, the community hasn't forgotten all the previous actions of reddit (on command of u/spez)

Or buy (also) via something like bandcamp, when the artist is on it. They cut only 10% IIRC

I wouldn't say all, but yeah most people probably. It's so unbelievable that people like Trump are so popular, and that people are voting and acting against their own interests (because they are stupid?).

Why should writing something in Rust be a premature optimization? I don't choose Rust because of its performance (at least that's not the furst thing that comes to my mind) but because of language ergonomics and because of its strictness which makes maintenence much less painful.

Yet it's not optimizing prematurely...

Everyone who has to do a little bit more with databases, knows that it's often the database which is the bottleneck.

Rust is a great language not just because of its performance.

Democracy is a spectrum, it's true that it's getting less democratic, and the US is certainly less democratic than most of Europe, but it's still technically a democracy.

I hope that I don't have to write PHP anymore ever in my life, so sorry, a definitive no.

This! I feel it myself, my ADHD was much better when I stayed in a relatively natural setting with only little technology. for a few weeks (I did some programming there though, and boy was I focused in complex problems without medication etc. had one of my best coding sessions there I think). I'm pretty sure that a lot of ADHD but also other psychiatric issues like autism or social anxiety etc. that is diagnosed these days is because of all this unhealthy environment we have created. Or in other words, our modern technology promotes psychiatric issues such as ADHD, autism, social anxiety etc.

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Yes, I feel long-term damage will be more interesting. If there are viable alternatives, people may migrate over, a large part of the reddit community still knows what happened, and I doubt that with the current CEO that reddit will succeed long-term

Yeah me too, but I think it's not there yet, when you think out of a less programmer focused perspective, as most of the stuff in games is of artistic nature (which takes time to make, even with all the AI stuff) and otherwise simple game logic for most of these indie games. So something like an interactive GUI editor to "debug" is a must have for artists.

I'm guessing it has to do with money laundering/tracking etc.

Now play a game for an hour...

A few instances will likely federate with threads, but probably not the interesting ones...

Come to Austria everything is so much better here /s

(I'm not sure if there is a country where there isn't a drift towards stupi... ehh "right-wing conservative politics")

True, Fyrox often gets less love than e.g. Bevy (probably because the data-driven ECS pattern feels more idiomatic in Rust than OOP, and probably because it's mostly a one-man-show as well)

Well, or even more effective, just put your clothing into water. I even have a vest that is specifically designed for that:

You'll put it into water and evaporation is keeping you cool with a relatively stable temperature. For example: I sat around a few people who were clearly not "enjoying" the heat, while I was quite comfortable (and I'm really sensitive to heat and would normally escape hot places instantly).

Digg exodus

It's ironic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZcASzFlrQE&t=56m57s

Reddit had been my greatest online addiction by far

Yeah for me too, glad reddit broke that habbit for me, with lemmy my participation is definitely more healthy, less "doom" scrolling, more productive things like programming.

I want to make sure that I can reliably delete my full comment history before I do that and I haven’t bothered researching that yet.

What you want to do, is probably fill all your comments and posts automated with garbage or a fuck u/spez message, or lemmy promotion. I think this hurts reddit even more. (With something like this: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit )

Agree!

There are of course security flaws, we're humans after all. Unless the compiler and the language can be proven mathematically correct at least.

But as described above, in practice the security flaws are easier to isolate in Rust compared to C# IME. The current story of security flaws in Rust is quite good so far.

Oh I think they'll do, just to not miss the train, and then they'll find a "smart" way to "destroy" federation and get people on their side... But we'll see...

I'm not speaking for Rust level performance. I'm using Rust nowadays, because it's generally doing a lot right, that other popular languages struggle with IMO.

Think about error handling. I think even Java is better here than C#. I think it's quite a mistake, not being required to add all possible exception types that a function can throw to the function signature.

Then the next thing, I really hate about almost every popular language is implicit null. To be really safe, you have to check every (non-primitive) variable for null before using it, otherwise you have a potential NullPointerException.

Then take pattern matching, this is a baked in feature of Rust from the beginning and it does this really well (exhaustive matching etc.). There's "basic" pattern matching in C#, but it just doesn't really feel right in the language, and is not even close in capability compared to Rusts.

All of this (and more) makes Rust the less error-prone language, which I can say with confidence after long experience with both of these languages (both > 5 years).

I'm honestly not sure why exactly C# was chosen for most of the games, but it's probably because it's relatively good to embed, is relatively strong-typed, while being somewhat performant (compared to something like python or other scripting languages).

Learning curve is steep in the beginning, I agree (I wouldn't argue painful though, maybe if you have to unlearn bad practices, like interior mutability though etc.).

But I think it pays off after some time. I'm now faster in Rust than in C# with similar experience, and the quality of the code is definitely higher as well (which can be credited to the strict kinda opinionated design of Rust IMO).

It composes really well, better than most (non-functional) popular languages. I think this is probably the Sell for Rust, as it additionally works remarkably well over the entire stack (kernel -> frontend) (in each abstraction level might be better/easier to use languages to be fair though).

Rust has exactly the same problems with depreciation as many Frameworks rely on experimental features which are subject to change.

Rust has actually quite a good record with depreciation and backwards-compatibilty etc. They are changing the language in non-backwards compatible way over editions, but the changes are mostly very manageable.

But to not end up being another C++ (syntax-wise it's a disaster IMHO), a few non-backwards-compatible changes every few years are the way to go, when it's manageable.

Actually that's one of the few cases, where a (distributed/decentralized) blockchain really makes sense (trustless ledger which can be used for incorruptible/transparent political systems)...

Ignoring all the buzzword bingo and hype.

Yeah especially with just 0.001% of the estimated workload (~10W when gaming, but even when standby 0.5W, 100uW are still just 0.02% of that...). Needs a lot more research...

Less consumerism, more focus on real social aspects:

• Macro: robust (decentralized) political system, that's not easily corruptible, e.g. via something like blockchain
• Micro: more focus on direct interaction with other people, not via something like a screen, as another post here already said, we're harming ourselves (promote psychiatric issues etc.) with the current state of technology (smartphone overuse). We have gone much less social (direct interaction with others) because of this I'm sure of.