cool article
which makes me wonder why there are people who still avoid systemd. i get that alpine can't use glibc, but what about everyone else? i just see vague statements about systemd being "too big" or going "against unix philosophy", but never concrete disadvantages of systemd compared to other pid-1s
edit: also, i wonder how viable would it be to port systemd to musl or whatever alpine uses so that they can take advantage of it
adhd: three neurotypes in a trenchcoat
cool, i'm even in one of the pictures!
not a wayland dev but: patches welcome
i think i know what happened: the text looks different depending on the client/interface. i first read it on thunder and it looked fine, but i'm now on lemmy web using the vanilla theme and it looks like this:
rust is a systems/low overhead programming language. really not much of a point comparing js/ts and rust, since js is much higher level. you should be comparing it with c, c++, zig, maybe nim, etc
you also imply it's pointless to have a language geared towards performance because computers are better now, but 1) programs run on more than just personal computers and you wouldn't run js in an embedded system and 2) just because your computer can put up with poor performance and resource waste doesn't mean that it's sensible to do so (hello electron)
also, rust does more than just cosmetic improvements. it adds a layer of statically guaranteed memory safety that no other commercially viable programming language that i know of has. even if its syntax looked like ancient eldritch runes, it would still be an attractive language. the fact that it manages to do more than other languages while still having a decent syntax is amazing
you can dislike rust if you want that's fine but you don't need to try to shit on it just bc it's not your cup of tea
as a brazilian, i have a few ideas as to why latam participation in the survey was so low and i don't think it has much to do with low linux usage
lemmy isn't very popular in brazil yet, even inside the brazilian fediverse. my current instance is a few months old and it is one of the first brazilian lemmy instances
unlike europeans, the overwhelming majority of brazilians is monolingual. only 5% of brazilians have any level of english knowledge and 1% are proficient. even if lemmy was popular in brazil, most people wouldn't even see the survey anyway
i don't know for sure about the rest of latam (and the global south for that matter), but I'm willing to bet both of these points apply
"this week in plasma: core plasma shell rewritten in typescript and electron"
at least this guy recognizes systemd isn't (just) an init system
"it attempts to do more" yeah. that's the point. that's a good thing. a single source of truth for system background services. background systems used to be a fucking mess and then systemd fixed it. this is why it is the de facto pid 1
i wish people just quit whining
sorted by controversial and found this post. why? this is amazing