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.
The term LLM should hopefully better outline what we're actually against, since no intelligence of any sort is mandatory for contributing to Alacritty.
