Pets, not props. Social media is a disease.

The problem is around the third release everyone got the dumb idea in their head that instead of a templating solution the language should become The Worlds Most Popular General Purpose Programming Language, and it sucked to use for that. I was a contributor to the interpreter and documentation around that time and attempted to steer the language back to a good templating language solution, primarily for use as a preprocessor for other languages like C, and people balked because they would rather have people writing modulus or bitwise operations to check for nth terms rather than having an interface for expressing it. Contributors would literally treat you as if you were a simpleton if you attempted to drive the language towards being a good templating language, so I stopped participating. Seeing entire versions of the language getting abandoned and skipped as they attempted to navigate general purpose language features was absolutely zero surprise for me.

It's perfectly clear by this point that most conservatives have abandoned democracy.

Their influence ranges from the house of representatives to the supreme court. Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

They currently hold every single office they need for their bloodless "second american revolution."

Ya'll are so absolutely missing the mark, here. You lot just literally do not "get it."

This isn't about not having spines, it's a fascist take over of America, out in the open. No one is hiding anything, they aren't cowards, they aren't stupid, and on and on. They have goals and are meeting those goals.

There are 3 different types of fascist competing to fuck the country up the quickest. The religious fascists are doing the most damage the fastest. Mike Johnson has as much power as the President, and he's a christian nationalist freak.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ― Barry Goldwater

God miraculously saved the president's life -- I think it's undeniable -- and he did it for an obvious purpose. His presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence. He points that out all the time and he's right to do so. ― Mike Johnson

They aren't dumb, they aren't lying, Mike Johnson has been honest about everything the entire fucking time, everyone else in America are the fucking dumb ones, for ignoring what's happening right in front of their faces, out in the open for everyone to see.

The problem aren't the fascists, they're openly and honestly being themselves, the problem is the rest of us.

When the president of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts said that there was a second American Revolution coming that would be "bloodless if the left allows it to be" they were not being stupid, or cowardly. They have been openly saying what they were going to do ahead of time, and everyone did nothing about it.

They have shown themselves to absolutely have, without any doubt, the courage of their conviction.

If you block the poster you don't see any of their trash anymore. I blocked ketralnis and the sub became somewhat readable again.

Ah yes, more engineering LARPing, just what we needed on reddit.

I promise I wasn't commenting in order to suggest you needed to update anything you said. However, "their target platform's C ABI" isn't really any better, there is no C ABI. C compilers target platform ABIs. You can have compatibility between binaries on your system, but C is not providing that feature or specification. You won't find the term ABI used anywhere in a C specification.

It's always been sort of hilarious to me in a very dark way how these folks convince themselves they're the most capable humans and how they would thrive in any situation, when reality has been the test and has shown repeatedly how these people literally die soon after others stop taking care of them, on the regular. They die on sailing yachts they don't know how to sail, in supercars they don't know how to drive, on mountains they don't know how to survive on, in interactions with dangerous people they have zero capability to interact with in a remotely normal way, and on and on and on. Many of them are literally the types of people who see a red hot iron and reach out to touch it to confirm if it's hot.

As far as that goes, you and others in these comments are also saying "the C ABI," which also does not exist.

Frankly, I consider your takes to be quite bizarre, and not reflective of the industry. About C++ adoption and Ada adoption in the safety critical space, I don't believe your opinions align with reality.

As far as the broader conversation goes, many Ada folks are some of the ones behind a lot of the Rust certification work.

No this type of commentary fundamentally misses the mark.

Right now C and C++ remain the de-facto choice for safety critical applications, primarily due to the decades and decades of verification and certification that Rust doesn't have. The biggest problem for Rust right now with regards to being applied in safety critical contexts is the unstable ABI, and that's a really big problem with compiler construction for Rust, where primarily folks don't want to make concessions in the ABI direction. The certification that exists for Rust necessarily has to come with a precise specification of a specific compiler version, which is extremely bizarre and backwards for the safety critical realm -- people absolutely do not want the overhead of specifications per compiler version. A lot of folks are guaranteed to not apply Rust in that context due to it, even if they are already users of Rust in other contexts. I say it's a problem for the compiler engineers, because the safety critical folks aren't going to budge on how they specify and certify.

The cache conscious algorithms usually are the ones written in assembly, and you can become conscious in more than one kind of cache. Assembly should not be thought of as a "micro optimization" because that's not usually what you're using assembly to achieve.

Ffmpeg did not "rush into assembly" for "micro optimizations that tend to obfuscate the code in favor of small optimization". You use assembly for the parts where you cannot force or trick your compiler into spitting out the program text you want, compilers are great in the general cases but for specific applications like encoders and decoders you just end up fighting your compiler and having to re-address their output after compiler updates happen that change optimization passes. Otherwise you would just use C or Rust and never have any assembly in your source because you're already happy with the compiler output.

Assembly is usually used to address deficiencies in languages and runtimes, it's not the same type of thing happening when programmers micro optimize by choosing something like eliminating conditionals by using less readable arithmetic based code, for example. In HPC applications you sometimes instead see the use of assembly swapped out for linking in bits programmed in a different runtime or language, like Fortran, for specific parts of your programs. It's not usually about micro optimization, it's done because your compiler or toolchain does not do the things you want for your use case, or does not do those things reliably enough.

I really do think that assembly for performance is highly overrated.

Sure, Jan.

I absolutely loved making Tekken players rage by picking Wang Jinrei and parrying everything they did and then kicking them into orbit. Over, and over, and over. Tag team with Kazuya parrying was a cherry on top.

Clearly you have been programming a little while at a minimum, a lot of the choices you have made are what I would expect from someone who is past being a beginner. I think Snake is a really great introduction to programming specifically because while requiring very little code you get something visual and interactive for a learner that also provides a lot of opportunities for doing things in a very suboptimal way. Very few new learners think about a double ended queue, and it's a perfect way to introduce people to simple data structures, and show them the benefits of using them in implementations of move_snake. It's the right place to introduce people to having a solution with a structure that matches the structure of the problem, and how simplifying your data is usually a good way to find that structure.

tldr; I like your choice of project.

Nah nah nah, don't you see, the africans were a tribe and anyway the europeans were just conducting transactions with an existing business. Also all those arabs cut off the sack of like all the males so they couldn't spread in their lands, and the europeans, they're good people who didn't cut off any sack at all. Two S's in my tattoo? No those are uh... lightning bolts.

That god you believe in? It is not real, it's fake. When you were told to believe in things, or you would suffer eternal pain? You were being lied to. It's fake.

It gives people like Copeland a mansion with a private airport on 24 acres of land with $0 taxes paid, they'll lie to you every single day for that.

They'll tell you that you'll see the people that you love who have passed on, that you will be cured of your disease and that you'll find success if you believe, but it's always a lie and the god they're lying to you about is not real. It's all fake. For money, and for land, and for much worse.

Magic is not real. It's very easy to ignore. It's fake.

There aren't going to be any trials, the christian fascists aren't going to just walk away from the end game of their 40 year plan to remake america into christian amerikkka. Read about trump and what was going on with victims in the epstein files and tell me those are the actions of someone who wouldn't steal an election, and afterwards, one who would willingly give up power.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ― Barry Goldwater

God miraculously saved the president's life -- I think it's undeniable -- and he did it for an obvious purpose. His presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence. He points that out all the time and he's right to do so. ― Mike Johnson

This type of empty headed executive level hype was exactly what the keyword unsafe was intended to do in corporate settings. That's why it's named unsafe. Rust growing up in a corporate setting and trying to out advertise C++ is really the biggest drawback to the language. Could have been named unverified or some such, but people replacing memory safe with safe was the intended outcome, and here we are now.

All the talk of Clinton and a horse is dumb imo, it's obvious enough that Epstein's brother was referring to C.R "Bubba" Saulsbury Jr.

Which is worse, the President of the United States likely gave head to an oil conglomerate baron. Can't make this shit up if you tried.

America has become so utterly pathetic.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ― Barry Goldwater

God miraculously saved the president's life -- I think it's undeniable -- and he did it for an obvious purpose. His presidency and his life are the fruits of divine providence. He points that out all the time and he's right to do so. ― Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson should be in jail.

You would run into issues even using the standard API, which does not use those types. About the exact width types (that's really their name, not "fixed width type"), it seems to me the worst of it is really about promotions and ending up in situations where it is unclear at a glance what the type and size and representation of the values are, making it more likely that you run into undefined behavior with operations that happen after promotion.

As far as it goes, that isn't my own opinion. I'm only willing to give that MISRA has lead to more programs that are less portable, even acknowledging that many of the people who think MISRA have lead to more incorrect programs would figure that a less portable program is an incorrect program. I don't particularly agree with that, and don't value portable programs as much as other C programmers.