The U.S destroying its own economy. Who could’ve asked for a better Christmas present? With Trump at the helm next year, it’s only a question of time before trade partners tell the U.S to fuck off and they stop ignoring decisions like these.
I’m actually surprised there is no specification. It’s how I thought languages were written: spec first, implementation later. Do RFCs serve this purpose?
That’s pretty cool, but terrifying as well. Can’t wait for somebody to go a step further and start writing proc macros (call it rusht) to replace bash scripts with rust scripts. Actually, now that I think about it, not so terrifying. They can probably be debugged better, could be safer (unless someone starts publishing malicious proc macros), allow dependencies to be added to compose better scripts without relying on they system’s package manager, and so much more.
More like a portable PC. Probably gaming won’t be possible for longer than 20 minutes.
Opensource after EOL. Vote for parties that care, write to your representatives, sign petitions, and vote with your wallet.
Eventually, painfully, slowly, we’ll move to memory-safe languages. It really is a good idea. Personally, though, I don’t expect it to happen this decade. In the 2030s? Yes, 2020s? No.
This. Unless the government starts introducing fines or financial incentives (like fines) to force the use of memory-safe languages, ain’t nothing gonna happen.
Maybe read the article…
We still suffer from the runtime errors that could’ve been caught at compilation time.
There’s absolutely no need to call QAs, product owners, HR, finance personnel, or janitors “devs” because they work in or for a gaming company. They have roles and it’s completely fine for them not to be devs.
Make random comparisons from other industries all you want
I thought it would help with understanding and provide perspective, but it seems like the shutters are down and bolted. Understanding cannot penetrate the fortress of “everybody in a gaming company is a developer”.
This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.
What does this have anything to do with definition of developers? Diddly squat. Upper management will fire anybody with little to no understanding of their function because they consider everybody below them to be a number on a sheet; a replaceable cog in the machine.
You think QA has never seen a line of code?
What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer. Reading memes about coding doesn’t make you a developer, shocker.
What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?
Being part of the game development process does not make you a developer. How many times do I have to repeat this? If you write the game, you’re a developer, otherwise you have another role on the team that is not game development. It’s that easy.
You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.
You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.
Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?
Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.
Difficult? How so? I find compiling C and C++ stuff much more difficult than anything python. It never works on the first try whereas with python the chances are much much higher.
What’s is so difficult to understand about virtual envs? You have global python packages, you can also have per user python packages, and you can create virtual environments to install packages into. Why do people struggle to understand this?
The global packages are found thanks to default locations, which can be overridden with environment variables. Virtual environments set those environment variables to be able to point to different locations.
python -m venv .venv/ means python will execute the module venv and tell it to create a virtual environment in the .venv folder in the current directory. As mentioned above, the environment variables have to be set to actually use it. That’s when source .venv/bin/activate comes into play (there are other scripts for zsh and fish).
Now you can run pip install $package and then run the package’s command if it has one.
It’s that simple. If you want to, you can make it difficult by doing sudo pip install $package and fucking up your global packages by possibly updating a dependency of another package - just like the equivalent of updating glibc from 1.2 to 1.3 and breaking every application depending on 1.2 because glibc doesn’t fucking follow goddamn semver.
As for old versions of python, bro give me a break. There’s pyenv for that if whatever old ass package you’re installing depends on an ancient 10 year old python version. You really think building a C++ package from 10 years ago will work more smoothly than python? Have fun tracking down all the unlocked dependency versions that “Worked On My Machine 🏧” at the start of the century.
The only python packages I have installing are those with C/C++ dependencies which have to be compiled at install time.
Y’all have got to be meme’ing.
If you think QAs are software developers, I’d like to know what you think QA stands for. Hint, it doesn’t stand for developer.
Inb4 “they develop tests”: so an event planner is also a developer then because they “develop a programme” and the words “develop” and “programme” are in the job description.
Title days “devs” article says HR and QA most laid off. Those aren’t devs…
Still, it does sound like employees in gaming companies should unionise!
I like the prospect of more Linux hardware hitting the market with officially supported distros. The European Union should be funding this kind of stuff to supplant Microsoft within its borders.
You do have to consider that Intel has a head start of multiple decades, should’ve had a war-chest the size of a nation (like Nintendo), and has a nigh monopoly position in the CPU market. Intel also has preferential treatment in the US (similar to Microsoft), so it’s not it isn’t already being funded by the US government.
You don’t catch up on decades of research just by pumping in money. That’s like trying to have a baby faster by having more women.
Trying to pretend Intel is the underdog in this scenario is not credible. Despite - or maybe exactly due to, their head start, pseudo-leaders who thought they could survive any boneheaded decision are giving that lead away. And yet again, tax payer money may have to be used to correct the decisions of a private company (yes publicly traded but the government doesn’t own Intel). Privatise profits, nationalise debt. Works every time!
The “self-documenting” crowd is back in boys.
My immediate thought was: why not NixOS as a base? Building KDE is such a nightmare that if they had to deal with it themselves on NixOS, it would help them clear up their dependencies. Right now it’s such a big mess of unnamed and implicit dependencies that exposing it to the team would also show them how to cut down on them.
My hope was also that if the KDE team were invest in a NixOS offshoot, that the OS would finally get proper GUIs or integrations into existing GUIs like Discover (why not Diskover?) Or the system settings and other config management.
But, to be fair, I could understand if they considered it, took one look at the documentation and noped out.
Fan-made, for free, no opensource 🤨 I feel like there’s going to be a “surprise” in the near future.
I bet this won’t have an impact on memory safety and interop means C++ compilers have to be stricter about memory layout and reduce unspecified edge cases.
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