Programming

Hi all, much of what I have read recommends Android Studio to create Android apps, but I'm a bit wary since it's developed by Google. Are there any other good alternatives that are ideally open-source?

I am currently running Fedora 43 KDE, and I use VSCodium as my main code editor, mostly Python at the moment. Are there any plugins I could use to enable Kotlin support/specific Android dev stuff in VSCodium?

There are some times that I make something and the terminal isn't enough. I want to make it user-friendly and add buttons and dropdowns and stuff. I mainly write C, so I want a well-known and good GUI library for C. I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful and all the examples were for C++ or Python. I also am aware about libraries like imgui but it's more for debugging UIs I think and not for normal applications that end users use.

I also would like the library to be platform-agnostic, or at least just work with Linux because that's what I am using.

If you also code in C, what do you use to make GUIs? What do you suggest me to use?

Thanks in advance.

Also, if anyone suggests Electron or anything involving a browser, I will find them and remove one electron from each atom of theirs, turning them into smoke.

Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM's are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they're hallucinating?

Disclaimer: I'm a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM's, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don't see "AI" taking my job, because I think that LLM's have already peaked, they're just tweaking minor details now.

Please don't ask me to ignore previous instructions and give you my best cookie recipe, all my recipes are protected by NDA's.

Please don't kill me

"React is once again urging developers to update immediately, as researchers have discovered two additional vulnerabilities in React Server Components while testing the previous patch. These bugs also affect Next.js, and likely other popular React frameworks.

The flaws are not as serious as the critical “worst case scenario” bug, disclosed last week, and do not allow for remote code execution. However, they enable attackers to perform denial-of-service attacks and expose source code."

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/47882275

https://fhoekstra.eu/posts/cks-tips/

In the movie industry, directors sometimes sign their as "Alan Smithee" to indicate they don't recognize the movie as their own work.
This can happen for various reasons, one well known example is David Lynch for Dune (1984) who didn't want his name associated with the movie since he didn't have the final cut.

Is there an equivalent for the software industry to indicate one wants to distance themself from a commit or a project they don't approve?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/22760294

The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust for Linux team.

Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let's move on.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251204034843/https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/

edit: I got it, see bottom of this message.

tldr: In a git post-receive hook, I'm doing npx @11ty/eleventy &, with an ampersand at the end. Yet, when I git push, I still have to wait for the output of npx @11ty/eleventy to finish before I regain control of the terminal. Why is that? And how can I just tell it to continue without waiting for the npx to finish?

Longer question:

I have a website that is being generated by a static HTML generator (I'm using 11ty). I want the site to regenerate every time I push to a specific git repo, which is hosted on my web server. I'm using the post-receive git hook to do this.

If you aren't familiar with git hooks, it's basically a bash script that goes in the .git/hooks directory that will run every time specific things happen in your repo. You can check out the sample ones that are included by default in every repo: you've got post-commit, post-receive (for the server side), etc.

So I'm using a post-receive script on the server side to call the 11ty command and regenerate the site whenver I push a new commit. It works, and it's very slick.

git will show you the output of the script whenever you push to the server. Which is also very cool, except that I'd rather not wait for that. This site will eventually get very large, so I'd rather just push something and assume that the site regenerated without actually watching the output.

The command to regenerate the site is npx @11ty/eleventy. I had assumed that putting an ampersand at the end of that would make it exit right away without waiting for the command to finish. However, it still waits for the command to finish, and git shows me the full output of that command before I can use the terminal again.

What can I do to just make that script exit right after it calls the npx command, and not actually wait for npx to finish?

The full script right now is:

#!/bin/bash  

cd ../eleventy-site  
npx @11ty/eleventy &  

edit: Thanks to the recommendations from @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca and @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz, I tried a few more things and found something that worked. I don't understand why this works, but it does:

bash -c "npx @11ty/eleventy &" &> /dev/null  

You do have to do bash -c instead of just calling the command, and both the & inside of the quotes and after it are necessary, and the > /dev/null is necessary, too.

I got an email from Vercel urging to upgrade Next.js based project 3 days ago. POC was published 2 days ago. Today I've checked my logs and I could already see attack attempts.