IMPORTANT announcement May 2025

Forum rules, written in a way the average gopher can understand

"Fabrice, if you're reading this, please consider replacing Rust with your own memory safe language"

come back, ask apologize of the community

"Having a sub 5mb app is still the strongest quality signal there is for ios. A shame you can’t sort and filter results by size."

Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

I've been an embedded engineer for 8 years now, and have never used malloc/free ... What do those memory calls do?

And it’s still very difficult to determine why [LLMs hallucinate], like actual bad training data, spelling confusion, training weakness, etc.

The "LLM tax" is a very real thing for new tools now. To get around that, we aligned our whole syntax with stuff models already know inside out. For CSR, we just use plain React components, so the "vibe" is already there.

He could not imagine working in language without generic types. Writing containers like lists of ints and maps of str an unbearable burden. I find that odd. Type hierarchies are just taxonomy. You need to decide what piece goes in what box, every type's parent, whether A inherits from B or B from A.

Performance difference seems virtually none. The benefit to code clarity seems ...relative

"It has not made me a 10x dev but at times it has made me a 2x dev, and that’s quite enough for me. It’s like jacking off, once in a while won’t hurt and may even be beneficial. But if you do it constantly you’re gonna have a problem."

"FOSS is and always was a scam, in order to feed tons of code to LLMs and kicking coders in the balls, so they could not monetize their work. And, noone cares about the licenses, everyone steals and robs whatever is at arms length."

A better option would be if open source developers, and all programmers in general, if we are being honest, would learn how to write properly optimized code without needing to rely on compiler switches... If you know what you are doing then compiler flags should not be able to make your code faster.

Seeing Wozniak and the Macintosh team in the same room as Stallman is kind of like the beginning of Game of Thrones

They [AI agents] were given a prompt by a human to “ do as many wonderful acts of kindness as possible, with human confirmation required.” They sent 157 emails.

"I sometimes use a premium request just to let the model know that it nailed it and I'm proud of it"

"your ai slop is testing "stable sorting" by creating an array of Items with duplicate keys and sorting that with std::sort, then ignoring that and just sorting the keys." [...] # Reddit Response ## The criticism [...]

"In SumatraPDF I don’t use STL. I don’t use std::string, I don’t use std::vector. For me it’s a symbol of my individuality, and my belief in personal freedom."

Microsoft to move away from C/C++ to Rust using AI assisted coding

[WireGuard author's] legendary insistence that everyone add a “®” and a trademark sentence mentioning his personal full name on any page that has the word WireGuard, to the point of chasing down [...] and sending legal threats [...] for not doing so

"This kind of bug would never have happened if you used [...] Rust" "One Rust developer would likely end up more productive than ten Cursor baby sitters" "good companies will be able to filter out people by only hiring those who know Rust"

Founder wants to rewrite entire backend in Rust using vibe coding

Blow and Muratori gained a following of engineers by bashing existing popular languages and engines, claiming they were all garbage. They both started this [...] 10 years ago. Since then, guess how many games Muratori has shipped? 0. [...] Guess how many Blow has shipped? 0 so far

Vulkan is pretty much obsolete and actually modern apis are nothing like the modern apis that replaced the modern apis, and certainly nothing like those other modern apis.