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[ssokolow]

Doesn't change that its architecture (based around stacking up compressed overlay filesystems) is fundamentally flawed for this use-case and, last I checked,...

[ssokolow]

Mozilla already maintains official Flatpak builds (they're one of the only cases where building the Flathub release is allowed to happen outside Flathub's...

[ssokolow]

That's a shame. The LibreOffice Flatpak has some really annoying issues, such as using not using the XDG File Chooser portal, resulting in a GTK file...

[ssokolow]

*nod* A lot of the Rapberry Pi market is "I want compatibility with this bit of the Pi ecosystem at the lowest price possible".

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[ssokolow]

Nahh, that's just standard "Wednesday on Phoronix" behaviour. You don't need Rust for that....

[ssokolow]

That's fair, but, if something is open-source and people are talking about source portability, then "native Linux" doesn't really enter into...

[ssokolow]

Good point. I forgot about those. I correct my statement to "Native Android apps are provisionally Linux apps, with the provision being that you...

[ssokolow]

Android games aren't "native Linux games". If they were, then Win32 apps running in Wine and WebAssembly-based web apps running in ChromeOS...

[ssokolow]

...and also why you see various interesting looking games on GOG.com that I don't have because the user reviews make it clear that the developers only...

[ssokolow]

I prefer to have Windows and Linux versions because then I have twice as many chances for something to work with minimal effort. There are still things...

[ssokolow]

...but if two of the properties you want are "large and growing ecosystem of libraries" and "No garbage collector and libraries to help...

[ssokolow]

Exactly my rationale. I'm tired of burning out trying to replicate the kinds of guarantees I get from Rust in Python unit tests....

[ssokolow]

I'm quite literally a person who used Python as primary development language since 2003 in the process of switching to Rust for stronger compile-time...

[ssokolow]

Graydon Hoare doesn't remember for certain but his "Yeah, let's go with that" answer is that it's named after the family of fungi....

[ssokolow]

In the world of people spending what time they can spare rewriting their Python projects into Rust to gain stronger compile-time guarantees than strict-mode...

[ssokolow]

Aren't those just for representing the full output range of non-wrapping, non-saturating versions of operations such as multiplying two 64-bit intege...

[ssokolow]

Bit of a subdued way to say "Who knows how many packages will be incompatible with this because they ripped a bunch of deprecated modules out of...

[ssokolow]

It's more a matter of weighing up various personal preferences and deciding which one is best for his personal use, given that he already uses Linux in...

[ssokolow]

That "just without the ability to create segments with arbitrary bases/limits" still worries me. Never underestimate Hyrum's Law... especially...

[ssokolow]

30 years of working with computers had taught me to never underestimate the ability of developers to be wasteful of the CPU, regardless of how little...