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[ssokolow]

In other words "Bad coders use C incorrectly in userspace. Therefore, C is unsuitable for the Linux kernel."

RefCell::try_borr...

[ssokolow]

That's my big concern with Wayland, but I remember hearing "can't retain applications across compositor crashes" as one of the reasons EGLStreams...

[ssokolow]

It was accurate to a part of the community (that we old-timers are very irritated by since we are left running damage control) until the "this is...

[ssokolow]

Yes. Window managers are replaceable. KDE != KWin.

Record some combination of AwesomeWM and IceWM without using a nested X server like Xephyr...

[ssokolow]

True. I just use NERD Commenter in my Vim. Select the text with whatever motion you're partial to and type <leader>cb to comment the selected text...

[ssokolow]

[citation needed]...

[ssokolow]

That's a technically possible configuration without using Xnest/Xephyr/etc.? Last I checked (admittedly years ago), IceWM was a lightweight window manager...

[ssokolow]

Poke, poke. Unapproved post.

[ssokolow]

Let's be real about dependencies (seriously, that's the title). The Rust model is more amenable to having a single, auditable version of bits and pieces...

[ssokolow]

It's being worked on. (Through two different avenues, actually. The former being to rewrite a Rust compiler frontend for GCC in the same kind of C++ used...

[ssokolow]

Plus, Rust is more a middle-ground between C and C++ as far as implicitly triggered complex behaviour goes. (eg. In Rust, you don't have to carefully...

[ssokolow]

There's been a lot of discussion about them in the RFCs. One of the big problems is that those are both "easier said than done" features in...

[ssokolow]

And, from what I remember, the change happened because they couldn't figure out how to ensure that X11's immediate-mode APIs would get all the updates...

[ssokolow]

It's interesting, but the UX on the demo video is so wanting that it leaves me feeling that I could get a lot more relevance and do it in a week in a...

[ssokolow]

Also, kinda funny how obviously Logica's syntax is "Go and Prolog had a baby"....

[ssokolow]

Not Go and Dart, but take a look at all the others....

[ssokolow]

Corporate CADT?...

[ssokolow]

...and plenty of volunteer developers who know how to work on a notepad clone but not KWin....

[ssokolow]

Thanks. I suspected it had something like that yet but, so far, I've only ever needed to do it on the Rust side of a PyQt+PyO3 stack. (My way of binding...

[ssokolow]

Would that be Watcom or something else?

I noticed that Open Watcom retained that particular feature the last time I had time to work on my...