They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest
pol, rust, llm@cwebber ugh, as someone who loves the rust programming language, it's been so depressing to see everything around it progressively get worse
there are many reasons why i love rust: - having a haskell-like type system is super nice - mutable xor shared is a very good idea - the borrow checker is great to work and promotes having simple ownership graphs - have a crate as the basic compilation unit, rather than a rust file, is a very sane trade-off, and i like it more than having per-file compilation units - the culture around correctness is very nice - rustfmt creating a very consistent way to use rust - embracing inclusivity from the start
there is a reason why i have "rust is my favorite dirty haskell" on my profile
but then, there are a lot of things which are very bad: - being co-opted by corporations very quickly - embracing github and discord - no stance against proprietary software - no stance against centralization - crates.io is very centralized and does not play well with distribution package managers - cargo being the one blessed build tool, rather than embracing variety - rust applications being annoying to package properly in distributions
seeing people who i used to respect a lot, like fasterthanlime[0][1] and niko matsakis[2][3][4] embracing the slop machines has also been very depressing
it really makes me look more in the direction of embracing c and zig, but those have their own issues
there is a lot to like about zig, and the project itself seems to have a moral compass[5]. the compiler has a stance against llms and moved away from github. sadly the zig ecosystem does not seem to share this stance. for example ghostty[6] embraces it
pol, rust, llm@lumi@cwebber Did not know that ghostty embraced AI. Just uninstalled it and switched back to Kitty which is great. Also looking to replace keepassxc because of that.
pol, rust, llm@natty@lumi@marcusxms@cwebber At least in ghosttty's case, that doesn't really turn me off zig much. It's far from a core component or important library to the ecosystem
