no they really are just fancy comments. You can do runtime reflection on them if you wanna make something fancy like a plugin system but that’s about it

Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output=Result<AsyncResponseThatYouWillHaveToAwaitAgain<ActualResultType>, InscrutableErrorTypeThatDoesntImplementDisplay>> + Send + Sync + 'static + 20MillionMoreAutoTraits>>

I just use it as an RSS reader that happens to also be able to read my email

streamsafely.com as well – they’re running legit propaganda campaigns now

means they’re scared. they should be

every day i become less and less sure that i actually left reddit

Is there a python 3 package that polyfills to Python 2?

Plenty of 'em. You ever heard of the six library?

Reading this made me nausesous. I feel your pain.

You should switch to Rust. Through massively impressive feats of compiler engineering and a phenomenal amount of novel syntax constructs that make Rust the hardest language for existing programmers to learn, the rustc team has successfully managed to move this agony from after the program compiles to before.

This is clearly an improvement.

Literally what? “Linux is good on the desktop because Apache isn’t available for Windows” is a non-argument. End users don’t care that Linux can run server software, and people who own servers don’t care that Linux can run a desktop. The fact that both can use the same kernel, userspace, and package manager does not change the fact that there is a very real dichotomy. You might as well argue that MacOS is good for gaming because it can run productivity software just fine, and the latest Macs have GPUs that are (according to Apple’s inscrutable benchmarks, anyway) as good as a midrange NVidia chip.

Authors of server software develop primarily for Linux. This is great, but not especially useful to desktop users, who have no use for server software, and who productivity software developers and game developers frequently ignore. None of that has ANYTHING to do with whether or not Linux is a “real” operating system. What Polar was trying to argue was that Linux is not viable for desktop use since it is rarely if ever considered by authors of software that desktop users actually need.

That’s a nice argument, Senator. Care to back it up with a source?

Just because the tools aren’t one for one compatible doesnt mean they don’t have equivalent features.

Sure, Photoshop has a few (dozen) features that Krita doesn’t, but no one uses those anyway.

You can’t have both.

I stand by my point that no one with an ounce of sense will seriously argue that Linux is ready for mass adoption. The extremely vocal minority that does not have an ounce of sense does not invalidate my point.

No, it’s saying that your “proof” that Linux is a viable operating system in all spaces simply because it is the primary operating system in the server space is invalid.

Linux isn’t trying to compete with Windows for the desktop market. Making fun of it for failing to do that is dishonest at best. It caters to the very specific needs and wants of programmers, and it does that incredibly well. The fact that it can now run some quite high-end art and video production packages is a bonus, and if Linux is one day able to present itself as a viable alternative to Apple’s walled garden and Microsoft’s data-mining adware, so much the better, but no one with an ounce of sense (coughgardinerbryantcough) would seriously argue that Linux will be ready for mass adoption at any point within the next ten years.

Debian doesn’t make that distinction, but Ubuntu does. And even on the distros that don’t, you’d have to be an idioit to deny that the suite of applications desktop users use and the suite of applications you would ever, and I mean ever, deploy on a server have pretty close to zero overlap.

Yes, tools that aren’t drop-in replacement have often different workflows. thats simply a fact. It doesn’t imply that those tools have features that aren’t available in others.

You can pretty much do nearly everything in krita that you can do in photoshop. Perhaps RAW support isnt there though.

Pick a lane, dude.

So does Scrap Mechanic (sandbox game that’s basically Space Engineers on the ground – or, more loosely, Minecraft but with physics and you can build cars) also uses sqlite to save worlds. It also uses uncompressed JSON files to store user creations.

Ah yes, source code files that aren’t plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs

Very true, good point

damn I did not know zstd was that good. Never thought I’d hear myself say this unironically but thanks Facebook