Some of what is wrong with this code would be impossible to introduce in Rust. Just saying

I've been doing it long enough to confidently say: don't listen to any of that. Most of the time, whatever you choose will have trade-offs. Most of the software development is not about applying rules blindly, but choosing what you want to optimize for, and it's not always speed

Two *very* annoying things about the sudo-rs security issues: 1. People think that sudo in C is free from any security issues cause it's "battle tested" 2. People say that the Rust community has always claimed that Rust solves all the security issues

Lunduke doesn't understand stuff episode 2137

One thing that's ridiculous about the current discourse about the Cloudflare outage is the number of people saying that you should never rewrite anything that works, and the Rust rewrite was done for no reason at all. Companies rewrite components of their systems *all the time*

Lol

I'm waiting for a meltdown of the "I won't use Rust cause it's political" crowd

HTTP requests from within SpacetimeDB modules just dropped. Check out the release notes! github.com/clockworklabs/…

That's actually very cool

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I'm coding a GUI app that allows gathering surface measurements, to create a surface profile, and figure out overall flatness. It can be used, for example, for measuring precision surfaces like surface plates or machine parts. I use Rust and egui, and it's really nice so far

Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not Democratic? Cool.

I think quite differently about this. I still like coding, but I got into programming to solve problems. Sometimes I enjoy writing code to solve a problem, sometimes I don't. I pretty much always enjoy figuring out a solution to a problem, though.

In this specific example, payroll, it would also mean you're trusting a bunch of vibe coders with getting the legal side of things right

I am experiencing a bit of an existential dread that a lot of people are talking about in the context of tech jobs, but I've always viewed programming as a means to an end rather than the goal in itself. That said, I'm sure as hell happy I'm not starting out my career now!

The more I use LLMs for coding, the more I'm convinced fundamentals will become even more important. Code is, and has always been, an implementation detail. If you get the architecture and design right, code quality on a lower level doesn't matter as much.