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exxos··on Rust std fs slower than Python? No, it's hardware
It's the hardware. Of course Rust remains the fastest and safest language and you must rewrite your applications in Rust.
exxos··on ZX Spectrum BASIC interpreter written in Kotlin
You should learn Rust.
exxos··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
If you like tab groups, try Arc.
exxos··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...
exxos··on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
There are many other good Chromium-based web browsers. Arc, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi...
exxos··on Cobalt: Save What You Love
Interesting tool! Does it get around rate limiting?
exxos··on Fish – Update on the Rust port
It does.

With Go, it would have worked out of the box on all the targets Go can support.

exxos··on Fish – Update on the Rust port
So, what new features do we get from that? Except that it doesn't work on Windows any more?
exxos··on Sqids – Generate short unique IDs from numbers
I didn't think of that, but this is a nice trick!
exxos··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
Maybe not intentional.

Virtually everybody is using an engine based on Webkit or Blink these days. This is naturally what websites are optimized for.

exxos··on Roc – A fast, friendly, functional language
Can't be better than Rust.
exxos··on RustGPT: ChatGPT UI Built with Rust, Htmx, SQLite
When there's a programming language in the project name and it's not a library, it's not a good sign. It means that there was nothing interesting worth mentioning.
exxos··on Emacs-ng: A project to integrate Deno and WebRender into Emacs
Why not Bun ?
exxos··on Implementing TCP in Rust
This is a great initiative to help people understand how TCP works.

But an "implementing TCP in <an easy, readable language such as Python>" would be so much better IMHO. Rust is good, but not as readable pseudo-code to understand a concept.