I've similarly thought about building a language that compiles to Rust, but handles everything around references and borrowing and abstracts that away from the user. Then you get a language where you don't have to think about memory at all, but the resulting code "should" still be fairly fast because Rust is fast (kind of ending up in the same place as Go).
I haven't written a ton of Rust so maybe my assumptions of what's possible are wrong, but it is an idea I've come back to a few times.
Think of Rust as a kind of kernel guaranteeing correctness of your program, the rules of which your transpiler should not have to reimplement. This may be compared to how proof assistants are able to implement all sorts of complicated simplification and resolution techniques while not endangering correctness of the generated proofs at all due to them having a small kernel that implements all of verification, and as long as that kernel is satisfied with your chain of reasoning, the processes behind its generation can be entirely disregarded.
Arc<Box<T>> is redundant, for the contents of the Arc are already stored on the heap. You may be thinking of Arc<Mutex<T>> for multithreaded access or Rc<RefCell<T>> for singlethreaded access. Both enable the same "feature" of moving the compile-time borrow checking to runtime (Mutex/RefCell) and using reference-counting instead of direct ownership (Arc/Rc).
Every so often, YouTube changes something on their site that causes NewPipe to stop working. Usually within a few days, NewPipe pushes an update that fixes this, and we're back in business. Every time this happens, I donate to their Liberapay.
NewPipe has a few features that I like, but let's be real: most people use NewPipe for the 'privacy' feature AKA: blocking ads.
At the risk of being downvoted for having an unpopular opinion: but if circumventing ads is your goal, then just get Youtube Premium in instead of paying for piracy.
Because contrary to popular belief, the majority of that subscription fee is actually distributed amongst the content creators that you watch. And for the majority of genres this pays the creator more than regular ad-revenue.
I don't buy merchandise because I don't like waste, so apart from direct donations (PayPal/Patreon), Youtube Premium is my preferred way of contributing my favorite content creators.
I think the privacy is more about not giving google a comprehensive view of everything you do on the platform than just not seeing ads. If you didn't want ads, you could just watch regular youtube website with ublock origin, even on android firefox supports it.
Most on HN have already fallen for the dichotomy of scrooge mcduck-style capital vs proudhonist pirates.
Meanwhile publishers are caught between these dueling retards and getting squeezed on both ends. Don't forget the scrapers that will hammer your server until it's offline while swapping IPv6s the entire time
"Why isn't anyone building anything anymore durrhurr???"
I definitely had his URL stuff in mind when making this, but it'd been a while since I had actually read through his blog / watched his video. It was really fun to come back to it mid-project and remember that he went in the same "stack windows to get 2 dimensions" direction.
It's astonishing just how awful Spotify's software is. Everything it does, it does poorly, even down to things like playback and playlists that were figured out by other media players decades ago. Just this week, it started randomly playing music on its own when I open it. The fact that this thread has over a hundred comments within an hour speaks to just how despised it is.
Spotify truly isn't a software company the same way your health insurance company has a web portal but isn't a software company either.
I quit Spotify in the mid 2010s solely because the software was so bad, which robbed me of the satisfaction I might get today from quitting due to its even worse offenses.
An ex of mine used disposable vapes and I was shocked by how beautifully designed some of them are - transparent covers with visible inner workings reminiscent of the Nothing phones; custom multi-segment displays for battery and temperature status; original artwork printed in vibrant color on the side. It made me even angrier that these things are meant to just be used once and then thrown out. Of course putting all this e-waste into the environment is a disaster, but to then also treat art and design as similarly disposable feels heartbreakingly cynical on another level entirely.
I collected a few that she was going to throw out, someday™ I'll build some driver boards for the displays and make a little art piece out of them.
The worst toast I've seen is on Android Auto (itself already a veritable petri dish of awful UX) where, when the on-screen keyboard appears, a toast helpfully pops up informing you that a keyboard is also available on your phone... Thus blocking the on-screen keyboard from being used until the toast fades (and no, tapping it does not dismiss it).
I've been doing full-stack webdev in one form or another for a decade and a half now (5 years in industry, 10+ as a hobby), with experience spanning from Fortune 50's to early-stage startups. My two biggest draws are positive-impact roles and unique challenges requiring unconventional solutions, with emphasis on the latter - after a series of product-oriented roles, I'm looking for something a bit off the beaten path.
I also love to code in my spare time! My latest major project is Ectype [0], a "language extension" that brings static types to vanilla JavaScript without requiring code transformation, which I presented [1] at Strange Loop 2023.
I've been doing full-stack webdev in one form or another for a decade and a half now (5 years in industry, 10+ as a hobby), with experience spanning from Fortune 50's to early-stage startups. My two biggest draws are positive-impact roles and unique challenges requiring unconventional solutions, with emphasis on the latter - after a series of product-oriented roles, I'm looking for something a bit off the beaten path.
I also love to code in my spare time! My latest major project is Ectype [0], a "language extension" that brings static types to vanilla JavaScript without requiring code transformation, which I presented [1] at Strange Loop 2023.
I've been doing full-stack webdev in one form or another for a decade and a half now (5 years in industry, 10+ as a hobby), with experience spanning from Fortune 50's to early-stage startups. My two biggest draws are positive-impact roles and unique challenges requiring unconventional solutions, with emphasis on the latter - after a series of product-oriented roles, I'm looking for something a bit off the beaten path.
I also love to code in my spare time! My latest major project is Ectype [0], a "language extension" that brings static types to vanilla JavaScript without requiring code transformation, which I presented [1] at Strange Loop 2023.
I haven't written a ton of Rust so maybe my assumptions of what's possible are wrong, but it is an idea I've come back to a few times.