I think the argument is that if you're depending heavily on a "batteries included" standard library of a high-level language, you in fact aren't really building it yourself.
I've been building a small relational database (https://github.com/shoyo/jin) with the goal being fast, easy to read, and (eventually) Postgres protocol-compliant.
What I've built so far are the lowest level components of the disk manager and buffer manager, and I'm currently implementing the system catalog for table creation/updates. I start work in April, so I'll be focused on this for the next few months!
Maybe rebranding GitHub Sponsors as not just a means of giving money but one-off "thank you" messages would be a decent approach to encouraging gratitude in open source.
There's Ko-fi [1] which seems to be positioning itself pretty much as a low-pressure "buy someone a coffee" option for showing support more than as about the money. I'm very interested in to what extent that influences donations.
I'm actually confused if this site was created ironically.
* "Google search is malicious, send the same data to Russia with Yandex instead."
* Apparently Google Chrome is a search engine.
* "Google doesn’t care about users’ privacy that much. It collects your data and uses it for their own purposes." Might just be me, but this reads like a throwaway essay written by an 8th grader.
* The site uses Google Analytics.
Despite the clear lack of quality in this article, it seems like this type of post does well on HN simply because "Google == bad" is such low-hanging fruit.
It perplexes me that people are more worried about a foreign power with little direct interest in you and no meaningful control over your life having a small chunk of their data than the government they live under.
It isn't really surprising when those foreign powers are actively hostile not only to your country, but to fundamental moral principles you hold dear.
To be clear, it's definitely not at all better in any meaningful sense for Google/the US government to have your data. But sometimes it's about the principle of the thing.
Sometimes I wonder how some random low quality article gets bumped up so fast, and then I think it's about keywords, but that doesn't explain the upvotes. Are people upvoting articles without reading both the article and the comments? I get the no-article part where you skip to the comments but if the comments shit on the article, why upvote?
> Are people upvoting articles without reading both the article and the comments
Absolutely. It is much less of an issue here than on, say, Reddit. But lots of people upvote posts because it sounds interesting, not because they have gone through it and determined it to be high quality.
Have any projections been made on the net effect on the environment of EFFORCE? It seems a bit ironic to me that a project laser-focused on energy efficiency depends on blockchain, which massively contributes to electricity consumption and carbon emissions.
Awesome project!
I've spend some time on sites like Keyhero and 10fastfingers since I really enjoy typing, but sites like those ultimately feel time sinks since there's very little to gain after you reach a decent WPM.
This site feels meaningfully different since I get exposed to the literature as I'm typing. From a quick glance it looks like the UI is really clean and the text is easy to read.
I'm looking forward to using your site in my free time.
Maybe this is an ignorant question, but how exactly is Rust influenced by web dev? I don't see how the aspects that make Rust popular (ownership, lifetimes, strong type system etc.) contribute much to web dev in particular. Languages used for the web like JS, Python, Ruby seem popular precisely because they abstract lower-level details.
A bit of a tangent, but I think it would be worth distinguishing between vim-as-the-text-editor and vim-as-the-keybindings. For me, the value of vim comes from how quickly I can manipulate text, not necessarily that I can use a text editor in the terminal.
For bigger projects, I mostly use VSCode (and used IntelliJ in the past) but with vim bindings turned on. Because of this, I feel it's a bit difficult to compare the popularity of something like VSCode and Vim.
The Vim extension in VSCode is very clumsy for many things, not to mention the lags and the slowness (which defeats the purpose of using Vim keybindings) that's what drove me back, but I keep an eye on Onivim[0] which aims to be VSCode with Vim as a first class citizen.
