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zenlot··on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)
I am starting a new project, which requires to be GUI primarily for macOS, but also Windows.

Swift is a lovely language, but had to go with C#+Avalonia, which can give me truly multi-platform app. If only SwiftUI was properly supported on Windows, that would be great.

For now, .NET/C# + Avalonia seems the most convenient way to write Desktop apps, well, if you don't want to pay for Delphi ;)

zenlot··on A website to destroy all websites
Whereabout you plan to move?
zenlot··on The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project
I have Lenovo W530 from around 2012 or so. It has Nvidia K1000M card, full of RAM, i7. I kept upgrading it over the years and used Windows.

I have decided to get back to FreeBSD, I used it as desktop 2002-2009 or so.

Downloaded 15.0, start install, wifi driver works perfectly, out of the box. Promising start, never seen before with FreeBSD.

Installed. Next, lets go to setup, graphics and Wayland. And here we started again, same story, hundred magic params to add, nvidia drivers doesn't work properly, install older version, is incompatible with Wayland etc. Need to go back to Xorg, another set of problems.

Ok, if I spent another 8 hours and asked for help in forums as it was 20+ years ago, I could have probably made it work. Until the next issue showed up.

So I decide to drop it, download CachyOS. Start installer. It detects K1000M, installs old version of Nvidia drivers, KDE, sorts out all compatibility issues, everything just flies, flawlessly. As never before, not even Ubuntu or Fedora.

CachyOS guys, thank you, you made an incredible work on getting it all to this state. Absolutely great.

Now don't get me wrong, I love FreeBSD, used it as my main driver for years in early 2000s, started my career with it and it has sweet spot in my heart, forever. It's just that laptop support is not there, still terrible, as it was 20 years ago. PS last laptop I used it successfully on, was Sony Vaio VGN-FS550 from 2005!

zenlot··on The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]
No jet should be on rails.
zenlot··on Java Hello World, LLVM Edition
If you don't trust the software, don't install it.
zenlot··on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
Despite what majority are defending here, I love how Zig phrased out their blog. We're not in fake enterprise, where HR is guiding your language, calling you family and then fire you whenever convenient to them.

This language by Andrew is natural, real and should be valued more than anything else. Thank you, it's a refresher and it reminds me an old internet, where everyone been really free to write what and how they wanted it to be.

Who are you after all to judge how he writes his opinions?

Happy hacking, Andrew!

zenlot··on Zig and the design choices within
What about more people using it? More than anything this looks to be natural evolution of language.
zenlot··on Ask HN: What Is the State of Mobile Development in 2025?
TL;DR:

* Kotlin with compose multi platform started catching up and winning the market.

* Apple got worried and started supporting Swift on android, not fully yet, UI only available with external tools.

* Qt with C++ still winning it all.

* People realizing that they don't need this Kotlin / Swift play started writing mobile apps in game engines: Unreal, Godot, Unity.

zenlot··on John Carmack on mutable variables
Just decided to talk shit on Friday? What you believe doesn't matter. Facts matter, and your knowledge of facts are far away from truth.
zenlot··on John Carmack on mutable variables
You don't have any argument at all.
zenlot··on John Carmack on mutable variables
Nah, it doesn't. Although you can do similar in Elixir.
zenlot··on John Carmack on mutable variables
More than you will ever do mate.
zenlot··on John Carmack on mutable variables
You understand how games work, do you? Please tell me you do. Else, what kind of argument is it?
zenlot··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
Seen previous responses? Also, do you think he doesn't know it?
zenlot··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
Just don't forget to add 5$ "forever"
zenlot··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
Just apologize for misleading those who depended on your "free" promises. That's it, simple as that.
zenlot··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
What are you arguing about? People send you web archive links and you're still stubborn enough to say that it wasn't the case. Shame to even see you here, just shows what kind of company you are from the inside.
zenlot··on Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
Lol. You're not using your laptop making huge impact. Wake up, be real. Sheep mentality, exactly what they want you to believe in.
zenlot··on Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
Always funny to read from environmentalists discussing how much power draws a lenovo laptop from 2014 running NetBSD.

Come on, look at all the businesses and what's really happening in the space you're commenting on. That laptop literally means nothing.

zenlot··on Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
So many words and 0 to gain out of it. Why would you even write this? Don't have where to offload your rubbish?
zenlot··on Ask HN: Which cross platform desktop GUI to use instead of Electron?
I always go for Qt for this(with C++ for bigger project and Python for lighter).

There's also Delphi, which ticks all the nice boxes for UI requirements. But licencing is tricky there, not everything is available in community edition and more difficult to find support / developers for the project. Having said that, it's still great.

Kotlin with compose multiplatform shaping up too, so something to test out if it matches your current requirements.

zenlot··on Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3
Quite a few options there. Never really a problem.
zenlot··on Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3
Python, along with C++ enjoys the benefits of Qt. You can build great stuff with cross-platform Qt. And it won't be webview(Electron / Tauri) based.

What would be the benefits of this? I can't think of any yet.

zenlot··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
This is exactly how it works, and thread is proof of that. You're just being wrong and trying to find your way out of it.
zenlot··on Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
> Elite tier subs can take up to two or even three or four hours per episode. That’s why the best subs, are always fan subs! Because a business will never put in 8x more time on an episodes subtitles than “bare minimum.”

Thank you for this. Great perspective.

zenlot··on Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Lol. You're a product of the system. And you believe what the system tells you. If you'd actually go and study how your system works, you would realize your non sense you're typing. Either you're an uneducated kid, still have time to grow up, or the one who's been first in line during covid vaccinations.

PS: you didn't answer the question, how many presidents US have?

zenlot··on Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
> A single man cannot possibly represent a country of 340 million people.

So how many presidents US have? 1 or many? I don't mind you're putting your opinion out, but it doesn't change the fact, despite that it sounds laughable to you.

zenlot··on Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance
I don't know why people complain much about it. In UK especially. For example all EU citizens, after Brexit been "marked", with sort of digital ID.

1. You cannot open bank account without presenting share code from gov.uk, which shows your photo and right to stay and work when generated. 2. You cannot rent without presenting same share code. 3. You cannot go on cruise ship without presenting that. 4. Employers cannot hire you without presenting that code.

Codes are temporary, you login, generate and share that.

It's very much digital ID that's been in place for many years by now. So getting it to everyone makes sense, either "mark" everyone in a country or "mark" no one. And EU citizens been "marked" for a while and tested on with that system.

zenlot··on I only use Google Sheets
I've recently removed the fancytooling out of my pipeline, and re-done Jira on LibreOffice's Calc.

And with native python it has, I can query snapshots from Jira, add inputs etc.

So much simpler, you open Calc's window and just hop faaaast through sheets. Rather than opening your browser, typing URL, entering Jira, getting into correct board etc.

Need a to-do list? There too, just another sheet. Need to track your deployments? Just pull it into yet another sheet.

The sheet is everything you really need.

zenlot··on Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
You realize, that it doesn't change the fact, that the elected president represents that large country with many opinions?
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