Very cool, In Norway they are considering creating a floating tunnel that is held up with giant floating bois tederet to the ground because some places the sea is just to deep and steep. Anyway here is a video, dunno about current status: https://youtu.be/Gt1MDQHLjF8?t=26
This article is focusses on the safety features of Rust the language but this is not something that many developers (or me at least) considered when adopting yet another language. For me I was looking todo computer graphics with something that wasn't c++ but had similar performance characteristics and could compile to WASM.
Rust had the best language features for this and the most momentum behind it with things like wgpu and bevy. Fighting with the borrow checker and unsafe Rust is not something I do all day or every day, it is just something you live with.
OO gets you a long way, still there are interesting approaches being tried with data-driven programming through either composing lenses and ECS. I have a hard time understanding lenses, seems like a lot of work to reproduce the most strait-forward concept in OO (getters and setters). ECS do away with object and give you almost like a relational database, but it is cumbersome to encode hierarchies, but they do offer a way for non-code tools to interface with code which is important too.
Another way of saying this would be "it is harder to copy something than it is to make something". For example try building a successful search engine today, to beat Google at their own game, you need to solve all this technical problems plus beat a heavily intrenched incumbent. You can point to something like duck duck go and sure they did find a successful niche of privacy aware people that want to "degoogle" their lives, but even this doesn't mean that you can just be DuckDuckGo yourself.
The hardest lesson I struggle with is the Pieter Thiel line "the something of somewhere is always the nothing of nowhere". It is easy to see something that can marginally be improved or copied to perfection but this does not give you automatically the customer base and history that made the original work as a business.
It's a crime what Mark Zuckerbot did to Sir Tim Burners Lee, same thing happened Nicolas Tesla when he invented a way to wirelessly transmit power to break the monopoly of the utility companies but Edison lobbied the government saying it was unsafe. Good thing is today you can easily print your own coil and become part of the revolution.
Funny thing about that is he always says that he is the only one speaking up because everyone else has incentives (gets payed) to shut-up. Imagine that, a pandemic breaks out, you invent the cure and get nothing in return. I would want to burn down the world.
Oh come-on man, try to think at least one layer deep with the conspiracy stuff, obviously the lizards in control of the media want you to care about this stuff instead of geometric algebra.
In my lifetime Apple has changes hardware platform twice while still running on the Next Foundation API. Same thing with politicians, they never simplify the complicated laws but instead expect software to manage and work around this complexity. Nothing to do with the division of labor but more the packing order of software engineers.
I understand what you are trying to say but it is also a form of master-slave dialectic, you don't like something and feel above it and try to organise your social life with strict rules to isolate you from it. It's not even always a bad thing to do, like I an a coder who tries to avoid working with people who think like you.
Sounds like you had terrible clients. Stuff like this seems to be very common, I had simular problems. The hardest part is to be relentless and judge bad people was wanting and move on to better things.
I think the Korean writing system is often overlooked when it comes to notation systems. It may look like logogram similar to Chinees but every "character" is actually a syllable where strokes give an abstract representation of the voice box. My understanding is that modern Korean has shifted away from this strict representation, but it is still the easiest writing system that linguists can teach to primitive cultures laking a writing system.
Thanks for your work. What is the support for low-end and mobile devices? I have tried developing with bevy on my old macbook with an Intel Iris graphics card, maybe not ideal but that is what I have and I want to support most hardware. Last time I tried the simple cube example made my fans spin. Is this something that can be alleviated?
Good for them, but I (as a EU citizen) don't care about projects like this.
It is a soulless copy-cat of a much more famous, profitable, free and useful project.
Just look at the logo, what is that line in the middle and why is its stroke with bigger then the other stock icon embedded in the icon.
I know I'm knitpicking but it says something about the character of the project and NLnet. This is woke IT, as long as it is decentralised it is somehow better than other software no matter how crapy the UX.
And please don't tell me it is open source software and I can contribute something, like I have time for that. Just take my money and shut up instead of, you know, using my tax money for stuff I don't care about. Thanks for listing to my TED talk.