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”All features are xy problems”

”PM adds new features to the sprint faster than they’re solved”

”Each release require two weeks of testing”

”Each release introduces new bugs for customers despite the two weeks of testing”

They will resort to vibe debugging

I guess it can be a fun hobby project to learn Rust

That’s what we use in my company: a series of mini waterfalls

Waterfall only works if the programmer knows what the client needs. Usually it goes like:

• Client has a need
• Client describes what they think they need to a salesperson
• Salesperson describes to the product manager what an amazing deal they just made
• Product manager panics and tries to quickly specify the product they think sales just sold
• Developers write the program they think product manager is describing
• The program doesn’t think. It just does whatever buggy mess the programmer just wrote
• The client is disappointed, because the program doesn’t solve their needs

Usually it’s just one character that’s wrong

Google seem to be particularly bad at this. They did the same with Tensorflow. It was kind of the de facto deep learning framework until Google decided to deprecate everything. Everyone responded by switching to Torch instead.

*Gen Z assembly

Jira is so badly performing I make Jonathan Blow signature rants about the state of software whenever I use it.

Nah, that’s too fancy. It’s all held together by some arcane Visual Basic macro someone wrote 25 years ago right before going to retirement and no one has dared to touch it ever since.

Maybe it’s all just one big .xlsm file?

C++ is just an exceptionally badly designed language.

The weakness of C++ is that it attempted to be backwards compatible with C. It’s like it’s trying to be two programming languages at once.

And then it became like three languages at once when smart pointers became the norm. It makes it very difficult and confusing to learn.

The explanation came out as aggressive in a way that antagonizes the Asahi maintainers.

There have been talks and efforts about bringing Rust to Linux for more than a decade. This is not something that has been swift.

So what?

Well that guy does it to sell some stupid AI stuff that doesn’t exist yet

That didn’t stop Jonathan Blow.

Yeah I’m probably thinking of that one, and how it made the lead developer of the Rust in Linux project retire (because of ”nontechnical nonsense”)

Wasn’t there some controversy with Rust in Linux recently? What happened with that?

Either way, good to see some real progress with Rust in Linux.

What’s different between Vscode and other editors like Vim is how easy it is to make it a fully fledged IDE. Usually a notification pops up about analyzers being available, and if you click accept it’s done. Just one click of a button.

With Vim it’s not that easy. You need to install many separate plugins just to make it a fraction of an IDE.