SorteKanin

Can't argue with that

Why are you considering Zig instead of Rust? Or is it in addition?

Generally agree with the takes here and similarly befuddled that an unofficial site like lib.rs seems to be entirely better in almost every way than the official site. It's a bit disappointing.

I've unfortunately seen first hand the stubbornness of some developers on the Rust project when I tried to contribute a minor thing myself. I perhaps just had a bad unlucky experience, but it turned me off from ever contributing again.

it becomes possible to discover parts of the website that exist but you can’t access.

This doesn't really apply as a concept to crates.io though, as all crates on the site are public. It seems kinda like security theater to be doing these 403s when all the data is public anyway. GitHub doing this makes sense as there are private repos.

A code viewer for the actual uploaded code is much appreciated. The upcoming diff view sounds really useful too.

Is season 3 better than the rest? Do you need to watch the movie?

Considering coal is pure C, I can't really imagine an alternate fuel that would change the math substantially

Yea probably within an order of magnitude or so - then again, elephants are probably within an order of magnitude of size of humans. I don't see why elephants couldn't eventually evolve to an intelligent civilisation, given enough time. I'd say that's still pretty large.

But yea I mean the blue whale and the largest dinosaurs are probably about the limit of how large life can get, at least with Earth conditions.

Rust-based JS engine that isn’t just AI generated unsafe everywhere

Tbf only 4% of the code was unsafe after the rewrite, which is much better than the 100% of the Zig code being unsafe. Honestly it's not surprising you'd have such a large amount of unsafe when you translate Zig to Rust. But as I understand it, it's since been refactored to much less than 4%.

I mean it was 600,000 lines of Zig prior to the rewrite yea? If we say that a team is ~6 people, that's 100,000 lines each to read through and translate. Assuming 250 working days in a year, that's 400 lines of code you just need to read every day, let alone the Rust you need to be writing (approximately another 400 lines).

Add to that overhead for planning and coordination... I actually think a year for a team might be an underestimate.

But maybe you wouldn’t need as much fire cause bigger animals tend to hold heat better?

I thought the same thing. Then again, fire is not only needed for heat, but also for cooking food and creating new materials (metallurgy essentially). But surely a large creature could just make fires the same size as humans do if they needed to do those things? But perhaps it'd be impractical to cook food at a tiny fire hehe

Smaller I suppose, but larger? Why not? Wouldn't you just have a really large fire?