Of course it would output JavaScript. What else?

And unfortunately, this means that WG21, the C++ committee, has to take action because people are demanding it

Why does this mean that they have to take action? Why do they need to make C++ memory safe?

C++ was not designed to be memory safe. If you try to make C++ memory safe, you’ll have to break retro compatibility. If you’re going to break retro compatibility, can you say it’s still C++? Or another language called C++2? At that point, why not just use another language that was designed from the start to be memory safe?

The action that should be taken is to completely avoid starting any new project in C++, and let the language die. A programming language is nothing more than a tool, once the tool no longer works, you search for another that does.

C++ should go the way of fortran and cobol. The only development of C++ should be done is to maintain existing huge codebases that would be too expensive to rewrite.

You can just use an unsafe block though. Or make a thin wrapper that is just safe functions that inside just have an unsafe block with the C ABI function.

Even if rust had a stable ABI, you would still need that unsafe block.

I’m not so sure that dynamic libraries always reduces the size. Specially with libraries that are linked by a single binary.

With static libraries, you can conditionally compile only the features you’re gonna use. With dynamic libraries, however, the whole library must be compiled.

EDIT: just to clarify, I’m not saying that static libraries result always in less size. I’m saying that it’s not a black and white issue.

I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention at those “headings”, it looks just visual noise for me. But it looks like it should be the other way around, the headings should group commits time-related (7 months ago) and each commit should display its exact date.

Zed looks very promising. There are only 2 things that prevent me from using it.

• The git lens vs code extension
• Rust-analyzer configuration

I’ll keep an eye on zed, but I think most people will stay on VSCode until zed gets feature-rich enough that they won’t miss VSCode.

I wonder what troubles you had with rust in vscode. In my experience. I just install the rust-analyzer extension and it works every time.

Plus some (optional) extension to display the available dependency versions in the Cargo.toml.

Maybe debugging can be a bit tricky, but other than that it’s just installing 1 (or 2) extensions.

Depends on the language. C/C++/C# I never manage to make it work. Rust works incredibly well. Python needs some small fixing on the paths but works good too. Java needs a lot of fixing, sometimes I make it work, others not.

C# and java are both much easier to set up in an IDE (VS and eclipse (ew)) respectively. C/C++ are just hard to set up, I don’t think it’s much harder than CLion.

So except java and C#, every language is as easy to set up as any other editor/IDE.

I only use vim to edit config files through ssh, so I don’t know how it works for actual development. However, I doubt it is easier than vs code.

Yeah, you can still have a “tick rate” that is different from the rendering rate. Factorio also does this.

I don’t think OP is asking about that case though.

If it is tied to frame rate, then a set of inputs results in a predictable set of outputs.

If not tied to frame rate, those same inputs have to be reproduced with the exact same time delay, which is almost impossible to do.

Sure, sub-millisecond time differences might not always lead to a different output. But it might.

Now, when is this determinism useful?

TAS (tool assisted Speedrun). You can’t tell the game: on frame 83740 press the A button. Given a list of inputs with their exact frames will always lead to the same Speedrun.

Testing. You can use methods just like TAS to test your game.

Reproducing bugs. If you record the game state and inputs of a player before the game crashes, you can reproduce the bug, which means that it will be a lot easier to find the cause and fix it.

Replays. Games like LoL, starcraft, clash of clans have a way to see replays of gameplay moments. If you save a video for each one of those, the storage costs will be prohibitively expensive. What they do instead is record every single action and save that. And when replaying, they run a simulation of the game with those recorded inputs. If the replaying is not deterministic, bugs may appear in the replay. For example if an attack that missed by one pixel in the game was inputted a millisecond earlier in the replay, it may hit instead. So it would not be a faithful replay. This is also why you can’t just “jump to minute 12 of the replay”, you can only run the simulation really fast until you get to minute 12.

I’m not a game developer so I don’t know if it is used for testing or reproducing bugs or replays. But I know it is used in TAS.

Of course, for this to be possible you also need your RNG function to be deterministic (in TAS). In the rest of scenarios you can just record what results the RNG gave and reproduce them.

If governments could print infinite money they would just pay themselves an infinite salary.

Your fundamentals of economics is broken.

I’m not a java programmer, but I think the equivalent to str would be char[]. However the ergonomics of rust for str isn’t there for char[], so java devs probably use String everywhere.

Python is the slowest (widely used) language there is. It’s not hard to be faster.

If you’re an artist, there’s no shortage of potential open source work. Most FOSS apps have an ugly af GUI.

Either making better assets or better overall design would work.

There are many git hooks. One of them checks each commit, but there’s another that triggers on merges.

Way easier to compare 28MW to 1KW.

This is a huge idea. I’m stealing it.

Not just for credentials, there are many times where I change a setting or whatever and just put “//TODO: remember to set it back to ‘…’ before commiting”. I forget to change it back 99% of the time.

Every negative criticism of me must be a coordinated attack by 4chan! There’s no other option.

Oh, that makes sense.

Aren’t classes in CSS supposed to represent visual styles? What else could they be for?