No thanks, I’ll be staying with datastruct.nextState() rather than const nextState = prevState.nextState()

You can easily do the first option in Rust, you just use the mut keyword. That's it, nothing more than that. And you'll find that you quite rarely have to do that, and when you do it, it's actually quite a useful signal to be aware of, since mutability sometimes means a bit more surprising data changes.

I wouldn't even call that a functional feature, that's just the language being based on expressions and bool having a then method. It's more object-oriented in that sense if anything tbh

I really think you should give Rust a chance. It is not a functional language, like Haskell. Haskell is a hardcore purely functional language. Rust is not a purely functional language - instead it just borrows a few features and ideas from functional langauges. It also borrows ideas from object-oriented languages and it is inspired by C++ in some aspects (or has at least learned from C++, I guess you could say).

Could you maybe elaborate what it is about the functional ideas in Rust you don't like? I really only see them as benefits - Rust is like the best of both worlds. The good stuff from functional and the good stuff from object-oriented.

The problem with classes is inheritance. Inheritance is just a bad idea and a bad way to structure stuff if you ask me.

Rust fixes this neatly with traits that basically provide the same benefits as classes without any of the downsides.

Sorry but immutable by default just makes sense. When you start coding Rust you'll see how rarely you actually need to use the mut keyword. It's quite rare actually.

The number of users is not really what drives costs honestly. Or at least, it's not like a linear relationship. I think actually having many popular communities might be a bigger issue.

Jeg var ved at lave samme joke for et par timer siden, men jeg besindede mig 😂

I mean, I can't really take credit - the users on Feddit.dk are the ones that deserve the praise. I've been very surprised at the willingness to donate. We have almost 18 months of runway and that runway has mostly only gone up as time went by. Feddit.dk is not going anywhere anytime soon :)

About 62 USD per month. I post monthly finance updates. All the costs are covered by user donations so far :)

It might be possible to do it cheaper, but I feel I got a good deal for some very high end hardware so this setup should be scalable going forward for a long time.

Please be aware that user-level instance blocking is not the same as instance-level defederation. User-level instance blocking is equivalent to blocking all the communities from that instance. AFAIK you'll still see posts and comments from the blocked instance in other communities. More problematically, the blocked instance still influences your feed via its votes.

No. User-level instance blocking is not the same as instance-level defederation. User-level instance blocking is equivalent to blocking all the communities from that instance. AFAIK you'll still see posts and comments from the blocked instance in other communities. More problematically, the blocked instance still influences your feed via its votes.

Mon ikke 500'eren er til HCA? Han er da klart den mest kendte.