Higher level dynamic PLs didn't kill bash. By the time those languages came in, bash was already woven into unix.
Similarly git is kind of here to stay. Highly unlikely that jj & friends will dethrone it just bcz worktrees doesn't play nice with multi agent madness (bullshit).
Got acess just now. None of the tmux replacement replaced tmux for me. I hope this one does.
Can't wait for this to go GA.
"No one wants to work on a user facing web service with Rust, waiting on compile times non-stop. Nor do our customers."
Every time someone posts something that's written in TS/Go, the out of contex "why not in Rust" comments pop in.
Bcz the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Can I just say how tired I am of these kinds of remarks? They're getting more and more common as the internet has become armchair experts on all software and businesses.
We build best in class software and make it available completly free. No one else in our category does that. No one. Don't want it? Dont use it.
Sentry will absolutely run just fine on 32gb of memory, but thats not even the point. Its complex. That complexity comes from nearly two decades of development. Some of it is avoidable, some of it isnt. This is why cloud services exist - because we can amoratize the cost and complexity vs spending every waking hour optimizing every small part of a system to run on random low powered VPS.
"Rewrite in Rust" - you don't maintain the software, nor do you undrestand what that means. An important chunk of Sentry is already in Rust (which could be C++ or Go!). The rest makes absolutely no sense to even suggest that. No one wants to work on a user facing web service with Rust, waiting on compile times non-stop. Nor do our customers.
They want a great product, and they want to keep seeing improvements to that product. Our time is spent making it actually better for our 100k customers, not optimizing for your single use case.
There is always opportunity for improvement, but takes like this are both ignorant and entitled.
Field masks is a neat trick to make the update semantics of your API more tractable.
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Lol....this is spot on. Rust is great but for 99% of software, it's not the right language.
The comp time & disk usage are insufferable, syntax is kinda ugly (i read code), and concurrency is super clunky. Another thing is - everything requires a crate.
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Welcome to our Monday Meditations! 🌞
@badlogicgames and @mitsuhiko are chatting about self modifying software and harnesses.
SKILLs are alright but keeping the long ones up to date is a pain. Also, I don't like how models load up all the skill descriptions in context and read them ad hoc.
I'm glad @pidotdev kept the prompt templates. Super quick to write one and keep them up-to-date.
Outside of the twitter bubble, I literally don't see anyone adopting Rust for their workplace.
The jobs are non existent and mostly clustered in a few locations. Also, it's slow to compile, needs 69 crates for an http call, and clogs CI all the time.
Also, Rust for web BE?lol
Same. Also the built in tooling is far better than having to string together a bunch of ad hoc toolings.
With the built in pprof and leak prof you can get 90% of Rust's performance with 10% of the hassle.
We have used Go for more than ten years and only update the dependencies when we feel bored. It is very stable and let you focus on your business instead of updating the deps every 6 month or unable to build.
Regarding the error, I believe Go instructs us to handle the errors they have, which is good because errors don't disappear when you change languages. In my opinion, wrapping it in an infinite wrapper makes it difficult to find the root cause of the crash. Just give it to me directly, as Go does.
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Rust has one serialization library that is Serde. Over the years I collected a bucket list of all the things that I do not enjoy about it. Finally did something about it and finished Deser. Here is a small summary of the why, what and how: lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/29/d…
Experimentation platforms needs a standard. There's openFeature for flags but A/B testing needs a standard as well. The fragmenation is bonkers and every tool completely reinvents the wheel.
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Most application code being written in Rust should be written instead in Go. (And most of the rest, on the JVM.)
Why Rust is overused right now
Martin Odersky (Creator of Scala): "Right now, rust is actually overused because a lot of people push Rust for things higher up in the stack
Where a garbage collector is fine, but essentially you still want to code without. And that is, for me, a bit an exercise in doing it intellectually just because you can
I don't really think there's a big sense in it.
If you have the memory for a garbage collector, you should absolutely use one, because it makes a lot of things simpler.
So, yes, of course, if given enough brains, I can write code around and I can do that, but why should you? It can be much simpler."
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>Be German senior software engineer in 2026
>Wake up in 36°C apartment
>No AC because bad for climate and electricity costs 35 to 40 cents per kWh
>Decide to drive to work
>Fuel above €2 per liter for months
>Take train instead
>Train late
>Long-distance train punctuality at 58.7%
>Finally arrive at your €60k job
>Germany's tax wedge for average single worker is 49.3%
>Second highest in OECD
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>Someone says at least pension will be there
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>Check crypto
>It's down
>Government still removes one-year tax exemption on crypto
>DAC8 helpfully reports it to the Finanzamt
>Buy coke zero
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>Try paying €10,001 in cash
>Illegal from 2027
>Non-EU bank account illegal from 2027
>Digital euro and Digital ID coming soon
>Open news
>Fertility down to 1.32
>One quarter of Germany will be at least 67 by 2035
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>Migration policy counts arrivals before tax contributions
>BKA says non-German suspects are majority of violent crime suspects
>Policy debate immediately becomes impossible
>Take train home
>Delayed again
>Read businesses spend €64 billion per year on federal bureaucracy
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>Europe's economic engine
>mfw
I am so mad that, despite hearing about the Pi harness from when it was devised, it took me this long to start using it.
My workplace injects quite a bit of skills, mcps & other bloat into cc & codex, and Pi takes 2 minutes to clean that up. Also, it doesn't bloat my context.
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I spent the past couple weeks reading the Aurora DSQL and Aurora Limitless papers and ended up writing about them
I tried to break down the differences between all the "Auroras", focusing on the interesting parts of their architectures
Link below if you're interested!
