I enjoy OpenMW and I’m happy to host if you want, although my instance is basically just me and a few friends right now.

I’ve used a number of different Linux distros (including Debian) on laptops over the years. Although most recently my XPS 15 was running Arch.

I think they’re lawful evil, more devils than demons.

Hi, I’ve been doing TypeScript in my day-job and hobbies for six and a bit years now. I would not write JS in any other way.

TS is also a superset of JS so all JS is valid (unless you turn on strict mode). So there is no productivity loss/learning curve unless you want there to be.

In fact, a lot of people who think they’re not using typescript are using it because their editors use typescript definitions for autocomplete and JSDoc type signatures are powered by typescript.

I use Alpine Linux quite a bit, which is a Linux distro that doesn’t use the GNU coreutils or glibc.

Also even giving GNU such a high level in the name on a distro like Arch makes little sense imo because other components like systemd are arguably much more important than one of many libc libraries you can optionally use and a bunch of coreutils you can also optionally use.

In my experience I haven’t had an issue because usually the refactorings are small. If they’re not I just hop on a call with the person who wrote the MR and ask them to walk me through it.

In theory I’d like to have time to dedicate solely to code health, but that’s not quite the situation in basically any team I’ve been in.

You should refactor as needed as you go because refactoring cases are never gonna be prioritised.

There’s a markdown entry thing in the drop down menu that’ll convert your MD to their formatting.

I attempted to boot Mandrake/Mandrivia on an old laptop once and failed, then I mucked around in Slackware’s live CD for an afternoon. The first thing I actually installed and used daily was Ubuntu 10.04.

I’m running on 0.19.3 without any issues on Linux arm64. I built my own docker image though.

Rust is roughly similar to C in most of these benchmarks and beats it in a few: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/fastest/rust.html

Arguably when LLVM gets a bit better, Rust can be even faster than C because rust can be optimised in more places safely than C code can. The issue is that LLVM wasn’t written with that in mind, so some performance is left on the table.

Go, Java, and Nim (in most cases) are all memory safe but are generally slower than C or C++ due to the ways they achieve memory safety.

Rust’s memory safety approach is zero-cost performance wise, which makes it practical for low level, high throughput, and low latency applications.

That flag exists, it’s called unsafe for if you need to tell the borrow checker to trust you or unwrap if you don’t want to deal with handling errors on most ADTs.

You can always cast anything to an unmanaged pointer type and use it in unsafe code.

A crash is different to a SEGFAULT. I’d be very surprised to see a safe rust program segfault unless it was actively exploiting a compiler bug.

As a compiler developer this speaks to me on a deep level lol

((a, b) => a ?? b)();

const fn = (a, b) => a ?? b

ARM, but Apple has the most advanced ARM chips and macOS /The AS Platform has the best amd64 to arm64 translation layer.

I mean at that point you’re basically running macOS 😉

I couldn’t imagine buying any laptop other than a Mac because the performance to battery life ratio on everything else is awful. Plus if you want a UNIX system, it’s an easy buy.

After owning an Apple ARM laptop I’d never go back to anything else.