Sometimes I think companies lose sight of fact that they are literally consuming the finite time of their employees lives.

This toot brought to you by the practice of companies doing unpaid whole day (8 hour) trials as part of recruitment (even if it’s on sample work that doesn’t bring value to the company).

nostr:npub1wptc6fhq2uhc83t40cukd5xlajmquwrle3az5mqvmv4sz38x7rksx4fee2 yeah no reason not to give it a try!

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Cons:

- No incremental compilation so compile time after small changes can be annoying

- Limited library ecosystem — you might need to write your own shards

- I feel like there's not quite the same standard of quality in libraries as with Rust crates. I've run into more bugs

- Null safety feels more cumbersome than Rust. I miss all the combinators on Option

- Error messages can be pretty bad (difficult to understand) particularly when coming from macros

3/3

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Pros:

- Fast and efficient native binary

- Productive and fun to write

- Static types without much ceremony! I've had almost no runtime issues

- Pretty easy interop with C

- Null safety (see Cons also)

2/3

nostr:npub1wptc6fhq2uhc83t40cukd5xlajmquwrle3az5mqvmv4sz38x7rksx4fee2 I built readrust.net with it in 2019 https://github.com/wezm/read-rust because at the time I didn’t feel any of the Rust frameworks were batteries included enough. It's been set and forget since then, which has been nice.

1/3

nostr:npub1zsmqwsekvkxtykld4hty6wf37608m60vt2lxrt0kktgrqsk5m6yswfwvua The windows with mixed colour and resolution really is impressive isn’t it.

The Mac Plus had modern multi monitor support in 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slY_F1MxGlk #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroComputing

nostr:npub14w9qtt7g7xavf2pyhvjqwpklteplz40m7szssm3z0g35csqyn9yqt9ul0u To me the industrial design seems pretty good. It’s the software design (especially on macOS) that seems to have lost its way.

nostr:npub1n94n526a6vph6x3kvmm9u365gmjh8hx5t8ewy8esu4crrdpkd0aqeg93k2 Maybe https://pixelfed.org/ ? While you can caption media not sure it would handle paragraphs

nostr:npub10ftlf8mnt70zwpvtjd0j9exxwpzxfantrvuqzwhmf0ye22uey75s8rs2l8 It is surprisingly handy isn’t it. I can’t take credit for the idea though, I based it on this version https://github.com/jmhodges/grab

Ohh rsspls has overtaken Read Rust as my most starred repo. Who said #RSS was dead 😉 https://github.com/wezm/rsspls

nostr:npub1s3y572mqw42v6jx6he2867sksfqdxvfdkd55wdvu3z0vnr23h2asdsrrmu SQLite uses it https://www.sqlite.org/uri.html

nostr:npub1ms04r78tk4k4d8ykkz02a36qutz6mfvfn63m9xc7u0dz6kxq2p3qekv5g0 So far it’s been pretty easy to package stuff. Will depend heavily on what you’re packaging though.

Well it was a bit of a mission but I got #Deno to build on #ChimeraLinux. Now to see if I can turn my manual steps in to a package template.

Getting rustc to use AVX2 SIMD - alex posts https://alexheretic.github.io/posts/auto-avx2/ #rust

nostr:npub1fphhjq2ujzp54rv90an3wm2ztfrkfvct4lmfsd2xnp5tdddhw4yqp2rxxs For no good reason I have two:

https://bitcannon.net/index.xml which is mostly about trying out operating systems

https://www.wezm.net/v2/rss.xml is my main blog for everything else

Arrived back home today. The final tally was 4506.5km (2800mi). Not bad considering we never left #queensland.

Town Beach, Mackay #queensland #australia