I really deeply hope the universe is finite for this reason. Every great or terrible thing always happens forever, there is no causality or consequence.

You sure? I searched just to check and Three Dog Night came up.

“1 is the loneliest number” was a line from an old song, I think.

I’ve actually heard mostly positive nostalgia for Vista recently. I think it might have been a situation where they released earlier than they should have, and so only the later versions were worthy.

But also, do you even Linux, bro?

Edit: Other comments are saying it just had really high hardware requirements.

That’s pretty much how the Russian economy works right now, in a nut shell. To stop emigration caused by the expensive war, they’re giving away a ton of expensive handouts.

The interest rate is at 19% and counting. Very cool, very sustainable. I have a feeling “the last laugh” will be yours, OP, even if they win in Ukraine.

If you’re also not familiar, in it’s plain http glory: http://www.coboloncogs.org/

That is indeed very cool, and falls squarely into the second case.

Edit: Or maybe the first? (A joke about how insane it would be counts)

It seems non-serious, given the lack of downloads and snail mail as a contact method. If they actually made this, though, reenactment.

I mean, until Electron is rewritten in Rust, so people with Stockholm syndrome can still write painful JavaScript desktop apps…

Yeah, that’s my guess too.

As to whether C++ can update enough to steal it’s thunder, I feel less qualified to answer. It’d be pretty impressive if they managed to preserve backwards compatibility and do that at the same time, though.

Spoken like a true Lisp fan. I dunno, I really like static typing, and too many brackets gets tiresome.

My impression of business majors is that they get hired by people who have to use a search engine to know who to hire.

Oh, well I can agree with that.

You can like the idea behind functional programming while believing that any application is in the end about side effects and therefore a purely functional application impossible.

It’s a bit of a tangent, but if you’re doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it’s great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.

You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really “side”?

Hmm. So I guess it comes down to what OP is doing. They either want to write a Rust library, or something that uses a Rust library that may not be standardised or even exist yet. If the latter, they should stick with C.

Yeah, you could dismiss combustion engines for the same reason, or like, carpentry. You wouldn’t be wrong, they have caused problems down the line at various points (modern climate change, medieval deforestation), but you bet I’d still call them an advance on mule power, or on no carpentry.

This is pretty much an nullification of the idea of technological progress existing at all, which is a kinda hot take.

@Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de, so you can reply in the right place.

!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

I don’t think much happens in person, but the community for it definitely exists.

Oh. There’s a still Rust-y way to do this? Nevermind.

OP wanted stability and predictability. I suppose we’ll see how entrenched one library can become.

TIL about this problem.

Are you suggesting OP write a C application and then compile it as Rust? I’m not a pro, but that sounds kind of janky.

Yeah, but that makes it sound like they’re all equal, and there hasn’t been any progression, which is untrue. You’re either insane or a historical reenactor if you write something new in COBOL.

I think Rust is genuinely a huge leap forwards compared to C/C++. Maybe one day it will be shitty and obsolete, and at the very least it will become a boring standard option, but for now…

The history makes plenty of sense, and explains why it’s there in the fist place. The modern internet was not designed to use by console, though.

I’m still amazed at how usable Lynx is, given the insane premise of the application.