@atax1a the thing is, you only need a few very loud and annoying people to feel like the room is full of loud and annoying people

it's always been true of languages in fashion, and they suffer the most as a result heh

it's also really nice to read something about memory safety and stack management that isn't trying to convert me or assert that this is the one true way of doing things, so it's quite a pleasant change

be it things like LINQ, or async/await, C# is genuinely a pioneering language — and i think it comes down to the incremental approach they've taken to developing it

traditionally, big languages were developed with a huge release cadence, here's the next big version with everything, and, well, C# set out with "the language designers meet every week because we're always going to be changing things, rather than one big push every couple of years" and it's really worked out well

it's no secret that i'm unenthusiastic about "let's build the entire plane like a black box" approaches to application development, and a bit too keen on garbage collection to really embrace certain languages willingly

so seeing "here's a managed heap language that has stack only types" is kinda neat, actually

i used to call C# "Java with hindsight", in how they smoothed off various bad parts (checked exceptions), and made forward looking choices, but really, C# does new and interesting stuff

A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#

em-tg (em-tg.github.io)

"the C# borrow checker", a nice little post about how C#'s ref is rather analogous to lifetimes in rust

it does ask why these changes went under the radar, and i think it's that the changes landed gradually, as it's the first i've heard of them

even before you open up the book labelled "the guy has really skeevy opinions and doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut"

or the large overflowing binder of "people who have left free software because of his behaviour"

there's a quick summary note that says "other free software organizations have broken ties with the fsf because of him"

for someone who kicked up a fuss over sudo it is kinda tragic they're clawing onto power over others despite the consequences

"what's his job" promoting free software and providing a real alternative to proprietary systems

"how's that working out" gcc kept getting forked to stop him sabotaging the project, eventually forcing clang to exist.

"oh" immediately after he stepped down, emacs replaced the default config with something useful over his crufty defaults

"i guess" other people have successfully written microkernels several times over, their secret was not reporting to rms. he is the reason hurd does not work

to be clear, stallman has repeatedly shown that he's not a capable steward of software projects (everything that happened to hurd and gcc), and even less capable as a leader of an organization

even before you get into his toenail eating: he is very bad at his job

if free software is to mean more than a cult of personality, he should be replaced at the fsf, no question

i do not think he is capable or responsible enough to perform the job he gave himself

@erincandescent hard to pick one i like but

@erincandescent some real swiss modern style here https://flashbak.com/1962-1977-the-wonderful-designs-of-sainsburys-own-label-groceries-1648/ they could not get enough of helvetica

@erincandescent 1970's sainsburies was on a total design kick

the secret to having a good time on mastodon is immediately muting any post that gets boosted more than twice

it is a mystery why all these silicon valley types turn to fascism

well i guess except for the deeply racist and misogynistic work environments

and the whole "i am biologically superior to my peers" thing so many of them spout

oh and the whole "rules do not apply to us" thing or the "we should be in charge of everything because we're smart" things

the phone call can't be coming from inside the house

kinda funny how the rise of fascism gets presented as an external influence, or something more grassroots, when it's bankrolled by the rich to consolidate their power, every time