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metaltyphoon··on Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
Because its not as convenient
metaltyphoon··on Platform-independent SIMD in Go
Not convinced at all by these reasons. Rob Pike has long stepped down from the Go team so it shouldn't matter? This is a website not a language change.
metaltyphoon··on Platform-independent SIMD in Go
For God sake, add a syntax highlighting on the official page! Otherwise this is awesome
metaltyphoon··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
> I think the perf jump from Ruby to Rust is much greater than .NET Core to Rust

This has not been true for me. If you are constrained by memory, you will still come out better using Rust, even if you use C# with AOT. We use .NET 10 at work and see 1/5th of the memory being used by a ported Rust service. Your mileage may vary.

metaltyphoon··on I am often wrong
> But also, if they all use 500 agents daily and latest models can "one shot" everything, one would think 5k issues are fixed in no time...

IMO, CC should be the poster child of what LLM coding should "feel" like. If things are so good why are there so many issues? Why can't they get a handle like other well-run projects? As you said, they have unlimited tokens so this project should be close to pristine as much as possible.

metaltyphoon··on I am often wrong
> Those numbers don't really mean anything

IMO this is very dismissive. One example of probably many more, where software is used by millions and yet doesn't have this much being reported.

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues

metaltyphoon··on I am often wrong
Do you really think that having this many issues is justifiable/ok?

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

metaltyphoon··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
You realize you can write the Rust version in the same way the Zig one too right?
metaltyphoon··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
That’s the first thing others point to being LLM-generated. If you see, right after the phrase you quote, there is a question as to what else OP thinks is LLM-generated. I didn’t put words into anyones mouth
metaltyphoon··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
After going over that section again I can see it now.
metaltyphoon··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
So anything that has em dashes is now considered LLM generated? What made you think this is generated?
metaltyphoon··on Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
My iPhone 15 pro is showing 15GB
metaltyphoon··on Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
Applies to both sadly.
metaltyphoon··on Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
Didn’t matter, the space on disk still not reclaimed. On my macbook air it’s 35GB
metaltyphoon··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I turned it off on my iPhone and no... you don't reclaim the space
metaltyphoon··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
How can I not remove 35GB of "Apple Intelligence" download? I hope there is a way to do this both on macOS and on the iPhone too
metaltyphoon··on I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400
Why are you just pasting LLM answers :(? I see this constantly in Slack DMs to every day from work. It hurts
metaltyphoon··on Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
C# solves this so elegantly

   string text = """
      This is a long comment
      But I can split it
      And keep my indentation.
      """;
metaltyphoon··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Very aggressive. "Will you $FAVORITE_LANG people ever shut up?"
metaltyphoon··on Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak
10… it is 10 now
metaltyphoon··on Claude Seems Down
Meanwhile using it via GCP Vertex it was down terribly for 2 days last week
metaltyphoon··on Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul
> No, printf does not flush when \n is encountered, unless you specify it with setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);

If stdout is connected to a terminal, it is already line buffered and one doesn’t need to setvbuf at all

metaltyphoon··on Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul
Well, printf flushes when \n is encountered. Does zig have something similar?
metaltyphoon··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
I think when people mention generics, they don’t mean builtins from the language but a language construct for generics.
metaltyphoon··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
C# was meant to have generics in day one, but it didn’t make the cut and it was introduced on the next version (2.0)
metaltyphoon··on Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]
Mark? AwareDigital 2013?
metaltyphoon··on G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
Funny enough, in their both latest versions. C# AOT has a smaller runtime than Go one
metaltyphoon··on G#: A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
> since any use of external imports is prefixed by the package name.

And this is also one of its biggest problem, any package can take a good valid variable name that can’t be used without shadowing a package. If it only didn’t make the stupid, IMO, idea of casing for access modifiers and made struct Pascal then this wouldn’t have been a problem.

metaltyphoon··on Good Tools Are Invisible
This must be an online thing. In 15+ years of career I haven't yet heard "real software engineer...". If you get your work done no one cares how the hell you accomplish it
metaltyphoon··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
> Rust is (mostly) safer and more succinct than Zig while being dramatically less ergonomic

This is just your opinion.

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