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  • First of all, unsafe famously doesn’t disable the borrow checker, which is something any Rustacean would know, so your intro is a bit weird in that regard.

    And if you neither like the borrow checker, nor like unsafe rust as is, then why are you forcing yourself to use Rust at all. If you’re bored with C++, there are other of languages out there, a couple of which are even primarily developed by game developers, for game developers.

    The fact that you found a pattern that can be alternatively titled “A Generic Method For Introducing Heisenbugs In Rust”, and you are somehow excited about it, indicates that you probably should stop this endeavor.

    Generally speaking, I think the Rust community would benefit from making an announcement a long the lines of “If you’re a game developer, then we strongly advise you to become a Rustacean outside the field of game development first, before considering doing game development in Rust”.




  • Federation is irrelevant. Matrix is federated, yet most communities and users would lose communication if matrix.org got offline.

    With, transport-only distributablity, which i think is what radicale offers, availability would depend on the peers. That means probably less availability than a big service host.

    Distributed transport and storage would fix this. a la something like Tahoe-LAFS or (old) Freenet/Hyphanet. And no, IPFS is not an option because it’s generally a meme, and is pull-based, and have availability/longevity problems with metadata alone. iroh claims to be less of a meme, but I don’t know if they fixed any of the big design (or rather lack of design) problems.

    At the end of the day, people can live with GitHub/GitLab/… going down for a few minutes every other week, or 1-2 hours every other month, as the benefits outweigh the occasional inconvenience by a big margin.

    And git itself is distributed anyway. So it’s not like anyone was cut from committing work locally or pushing commits to a mirror.

    I guess waiting on CI runs would be the most relevant inconvenience. But that’s not a distributable part of any service/implementation that exists, or can exist without being quickly gravely abused.




  • Your answer wanders a bit unnecessarily IMHO.

    • no-std Rust has no run-time dependencies of its own.
    • std Rust runtime-requirements are basically libc, a heap allocator, and a threading library. Many implementations on many OSes are already supported, including musl on Linux. And what’s not supported can theoretically be so in the future.
    • Code generation at build-time is dependent on LLVM, with cranelift and (soon) GCC available as not fully mature alternatives.
    • 3rd party code/crates may impose additional requirements.



  • If you’re using an LLM to “learn”, stop. Otherwise, I don’t understand what lazy_static has to do with anything.

    It’s hard to tell what you’re asking. But maybe you’re confused because println! (it’s a macro btw) expands to code that involves format_args! which is a compiler built-in that doesn’t take ownership of the token expressions that get passed to it. Notice how the bottom of the format_args! page has this to say:

    Lifetime limitation

    Except when no formatting arguments are used, the produced fmt::Arguments value borrows temporary values, which means it can only be used within the same expression and cannot be stored for later use. This is a known limitation, see #92698.

    So, it’s kind of a feature and a limitation at the same time.


  • Ask yourself:

    • Where do these stats come from?
    • What do they actually measure?
    • How can the total number of all Desktop Linux users or devices be known to anyone?


    The fact of the matter is, none of these stats actually measure the number of users. Most of them are just totally flawed guestimates based on what is often limited web analytics data collected by them.

    In fact, not even the developers of a single distribution can guess the number of people/devices using/running that specific distribution. A distribution like Debian for example has mirrors, and mirrors to some mirrors, and maybe even mirrors to some mirrors to some mirrors. So if Debian developers can’t possibly know the number of Debian users, do you think OP’s site knows the total number of Desktop Linux users?

    And let’s not get into the fact that the limited data they collect itself is not even reliable. View desktop site on your Android phone’s browser. Congratulations! Now you’re a desktop Linux user. No special user-agent spoofing add-on needed. You’re even running X11. Good choice not following the Wayland fad too soon.





  • That’s fine. I didn’t look at the code, but from what I gather, Jiff serializes the timezone name (not detailed tz info). chrono users would communicate the same thing, but it’s not built-in functionality in the dt type itself.

    The example I referred to however may imply that chrono users would be inclined do the wrong thing, and get the wrong result as a sequence.

    (humble personal opinion bit) It feels like it’s a case where the example was pushed a bit extra to fit into the “jump into the pit of success/despair” reference. A reference many, young and old, wouldn’t recognize, or otherwise wouldn’t care for anyway.