i found something: https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1dz2hyp/will_herb_sutters_cpp2_eventually_evolve_to_a/lcg6jnb/

First, thanks for the interest!

Actually the language is pretty stable, and I take the (rare) breaking changes seriously... at least seriously enough that I write extra code to help users migrate through the change.

The main blocker for commercial use is that I've deliberately used a CC non-commercial license to emphasize that it's an experiment and so make it clear commercial use isn't yet allowed. I expect to change that soon though, as I think it's about ready for "alpha use-at-your-own-risk" Apache-licensed commercial use. We'll see, I have a couple more things I want to achieve in the coming weeks before calling it "0.8" and switching to a commercial-use-allowing license...

it's been three months, so maybe we're now close to a commercially-viable-ish version? even though 0.8 hasn't been released yet

good luck outpacing the flagship instance

the software was created by marxist-leninists. maybe deal with it?

here you go: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C-Extensions.html

sorted by controversial and found this post. why? this is amazing

cool article

which makes me wonder why there are people who still avoid systemd. i get that alpine can't use glibc, but what about everyone else? i just see vague statements about systemd being "too big" or going "against unix philosophy", but never concrete disadvantages of systemd compared to other pid-1s

edit: also, i wonder how viable would it be to port systemd to musl or whatever alpine uses so that they can take advantage of it

what

adhd: three neurotypes in a trenchcoat

cool, i'm even in one of the pictures!

we all have our most wanted missing features but if i'm being honest i don't see how session saving should take priority over e.g. rendering protocols

not a wayland dev but: patches welcome

i think i know what happened: the text looks different depending on the client/interface. i first read it on thunder and it looked fine, but i'm now on lemmy web using the vanilla theme and it looks like this:

rust is a systems/low overhead programming language. really not much of a point comparing js/ts and rust, since js is much higher level. you should be comparing it with c, c++, zig, maybe nim, etc

you also imply it's pointless to have a language geared towards performance because computers are better now, but 1) programs run on more than just personal computers and you wouldn't run js in an embedded system and 2) just because your computer can put up with poor performance and resource waste doesn't mean that it's sensible to do so (hello electron)

also, rust does more than just cosmetic improvements. it adds a layer of statically guaranteed memory safety that no other commercially viable programming language that i know of has. even if its syntax looked like ancient eldritch runes, it would still be an attractive language. the fact that it manages to do more than other languages while still having a decent syntax is amazing

you can dislike rust if you want that's fine but you don't need to try to shit on it just bc it's not your cup of tea

that's fucking scummy. he really hates mastodon admins having agency over their own servers

sadly, the web has become so complex and it changes so fast that it's now almost impossible to keep up with the standard, so only google and mozilla are able to do it

thanks google!

as a brazilian, i have a few ideas as to why latam participation in the survey was so low and i don't think it has much to do with low linux usage

1. lemmy isn't very popular in brazil yet, even inside the brazilian fediverse. my current instance is a few months old and it is one of the first brazilian lemmy instances

2. unlike europeans, the overwhelming majority of brazilians is monolingual. only 5% of brazilians have any level of english knowledge and 1% are proficient. even if lemmy was popular in brazil, most people wouldn't even see the survey anyway

i don't know for sure about the rest of latam (and the global south for that matter), but I'm willing to bet both of these points apply

"this week in plasma: core plasma shell rewritten in typescript and electron"

this is supposed to be one of those "take that, racist prick" stories. these are pretty common

systemd is a system daemon, not an init system

also, why should applications avoid depending on useful features?

i don't know much about openrc, but doesn't it use sysvinit? one of the major advantages of systemd is ditching sysvinit