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I only just switched to Linux last month that time I don't know what Wayland or X11 is and I just use Linux like normal without knowing I'm using Wayland (KDE), now since I'm already configured my KDE desktop on Wayland and I don't wanna do it again, so I'm looking for a remote desktop that work under Wayland not locally but from anywhere does anyone know software like that exist? (Sorry for horrible English)

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's what rust looks like? Yikes. How do people put up with this?

[–] Para_lyzed@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its syntax is incredibly similar to C++, the programming language it is targeting as a replacement. I don't really understand the confusion here; have you never used C++?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

have you never used C++

Only for 20 years

[–] Para_lyzed@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then I don't really understand the issue here. It's syntactically similar to C++ with the benefits of being memory safe. It's a different language, so there are different conventions and some different syntax of course, but that's to be said about any 2 languages; they are always different in some ways. I don't see a reason to complain about the aesthetic value of a language you don't know how to use, especially when it's similar to one that you seem to be using regularly.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, even moreso than it being hard to read, to me it's just ugly. So in that regard I don't think it really matters if I can understand it in the first place, if I just can't stand to look at it to begin with. Like it just makes me not even want to try. I get a similar vibe with Ruby as well.