pileghoff

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[–] pileghoff 6 points 1 year ago

I think this is enviable with low level languages. You simply can't abstract away as many things.

[–] pileghoff 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with man ascii?

[–] pileghoff 1 points 1 year ago

Keil, of course.

[–] pileghoff 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Async rust might suck, compared to async in higher level languages, but for someone comming from C, async rust simplifies a lot of stuff. It often feels like a lot of criticisms of rust boils down to the fact that rist was sold to both people using low and high level languages. I don't doubt that async rust is shit when all you want is a faster typescript.

Edit: I certainly also have my criticisms of rust and its async implementation, and I think some of the authors concerns are valid, it was just an observation about the tension between the needs of the two groups of users.

[–] pileghoff 1 points 1 year ago

I see what you are getting at (and I actually do know the basics of SQL), but for embedded developers, i think it's much more important to know about the storage medium. Is it EEPROM or flash? What are pages and blocks? Do you need wear leveling? Can you erase bytes or only entire pages at a time? What is the write time og a page, a block and a byte? There are so many limitations in the way we have to store data, that I think it can be harmful to think of data as relational in the sense SQL teaches you, as it can wreck your performance and the lifetime of the storage medium.

[–] pileghoff 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why would I, an embedded developer working on devices with at most a couple of mb of flash, need to learn SQL?

[–] pileghoff 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I usually use Json5. It's JSON, but with all the weird quirks fixed (comments added, you can use hex numbers, you can have trailing commas etc.)

[–] pileghoff 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, this does not seem to be the norm in my experience. I have not attemped to adding this myself, but I wanted to ask: are there any hurdles or other good reasons to not just adding this to every create? Why isn't it the default?

[–] pileghoff 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is that always suppose to be shown? My counter example (the one that prompted this thread) is embassy_executor::Executor. When looking in the docs i dont see anywhere that its locked behind a feature flag, you have to look in the source

 

I have a written a bit of rust by now, but one problem I always seem to encounter it that the features a create supports never seem to be documented. Neither what features are available, what they each do or which are default. Is that really the case, or am I missing something?

I constantly seem to include something from the docs, only to be told by the compiler that it does not exist, and then I have to open the source for the create to figure out if it's hidden behind a feature flag.

Also, is it really true that I can't disable a single feature from the default set, without having to copy the default list and manually removing it?

[–] pileghoff 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What have you done to harden Firefox? And what exactly are you trying to view?

[–] pileghoff 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, you can autogenerated js bindings, but as soon as you need to start debugging or optimizing you need to understand the js that was generated for you.

[–] pileghoff 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think the truth is that not only can't WASM manipulate the DOM, but javascript was build to manipulate the DOM and has been moulded around this purpose. Secondly, if you want to use WASM from another programming language, that is just another language you need to learn on top of javascript, because we are not at a stage where we can replace javascript (because of the DOM). Fo most it's more cost effective to just optimize their javascript code instead of adding another layer to the tech stack.

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