winter_squirrel

As a counterpart, if you have to layoff that many people, is it really the right time to also put the stress of a leadership shift into the company?

I can see the argument for this triggering an eventual change, but having _both_ the chock of a CEO change _and_ 28% of the company being layed off at the same time seems unwise.

I will say, this is why I love the JVM so much. Runs on everything, I can pull, compile and build this game easily without worrying about any kind of platform specific library issue unlike open source c++ games I've tried to compile

As someone who uses both for different personal projects:

- I use zig as my build system for both rust, zig, C libraries and linking since the build system works really well for this purpose

- When I need to write applications or libraries that can benefit from compile-time code, I always try and use zigs since it's much easier to use comptime then a combination of rust macros and generics

- I like the zig async story a lot better. Or at least it's much easier to wrap my head around and write code in compared to rust + tokyo

On the other hand, sometimes I know a project will benefit from the borrow checker or I want to use some of the awesome rust crates that the community made and I'll use rust instead.

It saddens me that a proper string type is a hill the zig folks are willing to die on. The language would have _felt_ a lot better if they would have (at least) just copied what rust did with strings.

I understand the argument that in most situations a byte array might be what you actually want, but in practice it feels very dirty to be passing byte arrays around instead of expressing the underlying meaning of that byte array as a type (in this instance a String type).

Having a string type also makes any standard library functions on strings infinitely easier to discover.

> I'm almost certain was driven by Microsoft

Would you happen to have any actual evidence to back this up with?

Why, other languages that require unwrapping it still see plenty of people using optional. In fact, I would have more inclination to use it in my projects if that was the only way to do it.

Is it really that hard to believe someone would do it somewhat regularly? I certainly don't do it every day, but more often then not I'll do the same kind of things in the morning (wake up around 4 - 4:30am, meditate, exercise, shower / clean, ...). It's just basic habits

The part after the schedule is weird for sure, but the schedule itself sounds fine.

Far easier to get a top 10% as a mentor than one of a hundred people in a million

From the title I would have expected this to be an article on V8, however there is barely any mention of it besides the title and the author saying he worked on it in the past. Instead, it seems to be an advertisement for a new language / VM, which makes it feel like a bait and switch. (even through the content itself is interesting)

I don't think a language like Java should be optimized for exploration code, it should be optimized for long lived codebases that want to maintain stability and quality.

I'd also disagree that adding a throws to the signature is much boilerplate at all. Especially in the ages of IDE's

How many other companies with the capital to fund such development have a need for a new browser engine and would be willing to fund a team of engineers to work on such an engine vs just using chromium?

I feel like most phones nowadays don't really care about a 5mb difference considering they have multiple GB's of space. At least on my phone, the space taken by the actual app binaries is negligible compared to media.

Is that really comparable? Github's competitors were already offering free private repo so it's only natural that they try and keep up with the market.