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Promising!

Has anybody incorporated an AI into c2rust to do the heavy lifting and learning from the compiler errors to self fix the transpiled code?

ronloboon This Can’t Go On

I agree. The book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling is an excellent read about the topic.

Yes, growth in economy and population can go on and will likely result in an S-bend curve in the distant future.

ronloboon Kickstarting AI for Code: Introducing IBM’s Project CodeNet

Just AI transpile to Rust: problem solved :D

No seriously, AI will take years to understand the context.

Coding is more about capturing real world knowledge into a functional program. It involves so much learning about how to translate processes, workflow and regulations into a binary that it seems naive to have an AI code generation tool we even can't understand.

ronloboon Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says

Please read this and make up your mind:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

The WHO can't be trusted unfortunately.

ronloboon Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

They even had to come up with their own security scanner (https://scan.nextcloud.com/). I assume because they don't even trust their own code mess or cause you can f-up your PHP conf in so many ways that your server becomes vulnerable.

ronloboon Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

Yeah it is, don't use it.

All the advancements on PHP are great, it's becoming a JAVA more and more, but likely any PHP legacy apps will never see an upgrade to the latest version. And starting a new project in PHP, nah, there are better more well designed programming languages.

ronloboon TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream

Timescale is what you want to go with in case of RDMSes with audibility in terms of change management over time.

It is the THING.

Thanks the timescale team for making this happening!

ronloboon UN votes to remove cannabis from strictest drug category

The vote was actually quite close, 27:25, which means there are still 25 people that don't get it.

At the end of the day, the rulers realized that there is a huge market and billions to be made in this industry.

ronloboon Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

That's great news and will contribute further to Rusts' adoption.

Large codebases will be able to transcode to language X at some point in the future and I am waiting for the day when it can be done for Rust with projects like https://github.com/facebookresearch/TransCoder/

ronloboon Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices

Wondering if Huawei routers have backdoors backed in as well...

ronloboon The Newtype Pattern in Rust

Pretty cool, thanks for putting this together!

ronloboon Names are not type safety

Very interesting read, thanks for putting that together.

I am wondering how these ideas relate to "value objects", a term formed many years ago via domain driven design.

ronloboon Zheap – Reinvented PostgreSQL Storage

Look no further, after playing around with TimescaleDB, there are no updates anymore and we can put this problem into a vacuum :)

ronloboon Show HN: X12 EDI Parser and Generator Written in Rust

Pretty cool, thanks for putting this together!

ronloboon How to create a video call application with WebRTC

Pretty cool!

Check out

https://github.com/meething/meething

dWebRTC Video Meetings MESH/SFU hybrid using GunDB, MediaSoup and Beyond!

This seems to be one of the most promising projects in the WebRTC space with support from Mozilla Builders.

ronloboon A look at modern PHP

I agree to the point you're mentioning industry standard. PHP is not considered in the enterprise environment, simply for all it's flaws and it's security vulnerabilities and still has the same problems as before. Most languages don't have those problems.

ronloboon A look at modern PHP

Hey Lawrence,

Thanks for this detailed comment and the historical background, it is very informational!

ronloboon The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust

It is exciting to see Microsoft is pushing so many efforts into Rust and WASM.

The Rust onboarding experience is incredibly explicit and once things start to click and code compiles, you're on the train.

ronloboon Prisma 2.0 Beta: Type-safe Database Access

Makes sense, non-type-safe language, we can push type safety guarantees to the persistence layer by coupling the domain models to the type-safe data models.

ronloboon Secure by Design

Agree, strongly typed languages are best suited for this as it usually allows to embed business domain invariants into the type system which can be checked at compile time.

Rust does a great job in that regard and is not too slow.

ronloboon You’re better off using Exceptions

Interesting article, also very F# specific.

A similar approach with type aliases (to be moved to value objects or structs with behaviour aka rich models) in Rust.

```rust type Amount = u128; type MoneySign = Option<Sign>; type Precision = u8; type CurrencyIsoCode = &'static str; type CurrencyName = &'static str; type Currency = (CurrencyIsoCode, CurrencyName); type Money = (Amount, MoneySign, Precision, Currency); type Balance = (Money); type ExpirationDate = &'static str; type MoneyWithdrawalError = &'static str;

enum MoneyWithdrawalResult { Success(Money), InsufficientFunds(Balance(Money)), CardExpired(ExpirationDate), UndisclosedFailure(MoneyWithdrawalError), } ```

ronloboon Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native

Curious to hear more about their deep dive into Native, Flutter and React Native as possible technology choices.

Hopefully, React Native is not a nosedive ;)

ronloboon Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia

Pretty cool, how does it compare to the Rust pendant https://crates.meilisearch.com/

ronloboon Speeding Up the Rust Compiler

Haha, nice pun there!

ronloboon Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager

Haha, didn't expect anything else with the stack.

ronloboon Google AMP lowered our page speed, and there's no choice but to use it

I am wondering when the EU is finally giving this BS a fine.

ronloboon Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter