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I'm familiar with much of the Rust ecosystem, and to a lesser extent go. It seems to me that the vast majority of innovation takes place within these borders.

Of course JS and the browser world do have their fair share of new tech, but none of that excites me as much as native development. Because of that, I have decided to (try to) distance my career from "web-related" development (which i still do, regularly).

Rust "spawned" innovations like SurrealDB, but even smaller stuff, like certain data structures, KV-storages like sled (not that small, perhaps), and general QOL stuff related to error handling and such tends to be implemented in innovative and genuinely useful ways.

Unlike the "real world", I realized that Nostr is full of eternally hungry and curious hackers like me, so my question is as follows: what technologies have you found that really gets you going? No matter how small, im genuinely curious, and it does not have to be rust/go related, and I'll gladly hear about any web related tech as well.

Heard it integrates better with tokio, allegedly a bit faster also. How are you liking it?

Hot take: the rust language is mid tier at best. The primary selling point is cargo, and its vastly superior ecosystem.

Seems like the serde fiasco is resolved? Any news? #rust

Serious question: why does everyone think so highly of bitcoin here?

From my (rather limited) understanding, bitcoin is the least impressive implementation of a blockchain ledger.

Just look at the block size limit, which has a use, but also didnt seem very well thought out. The block reward is also follows a pretty wierd pattern. Why not make it smooth?

Not that bitcoin isnt cool, but many later implementations actually solved these problems in ways that really impressed me.

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Well, technically, no. Practically, electrical heating is terribly inefficient.

This place smells like old internet and that is a very good thing.

This is most definately not how a normal distribution works

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If you had a significant amount of time over, and wanted to spend that time learning some new tech, what would it be?