kersplomp

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[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well there's your problem :P every language has bad code examples

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even though most of the specifics you point to are wrong, it's a good point overall:

Rust, being #1, should be better than all other languages. The fact that it's just decent makes it seem overhyped, and all the downvotes on haters make it look like a cult.

Back when it was small, the cult-like following was OK. But now that the language is becoming more mainstream I think the Rust evangelizers need to tone it down a bit or they risk pushing people away.

On your point, TypeScript is a decent language too. There can be two good things.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In OP's defense I have heard this said unironically by several engineers at my last job.

"Rust is going to replace JavaScript thanks to webassembly, so we should be moving all of our code to that."

"Our client should be in the same language as our backend, just like in GWT"

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you inline all those types just to make it ugly? Normally each of those subtypes would have been in a separate typedef, each with documentation.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

You’ve never done ecommerce logistics

I literally have. Go climb up a tree.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did 39 people really believe this enough to upvote this? This is easily proven false. Amazon is convoluted because it's old as heck and they hire subpar engineers. Like me. I used to work on the team that made the search page. It sucks because most of us were fresh out of college and had never made a website in our lives.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Have you tried buying from aliexpress? It's the same products as on Amazon, but directly from the supplier. Imagine Amazon, but everything's 50% off.

Source: I'm cheap as heck and buy random trash from them

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Meta's emissions were 3000x higher than they reported?! What the heck are they doing over there

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

God damnit not this swill again. It's not even close to triple, it's like 15%. Read. The. Reports.

For real. Why does this misinformation keep spreading? I have the actual real numbers right in front of me now.

And it's the same as what MIT Technology Review reported and what Google reported publicly.

The EU's CSRD requires most of these companies to disclose their carbon emissions. So just go look it up, ya taints.

[–] kersplomp@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Nit: One engineer at a company saying something is not the same as that whole company saying something. I wish they would just say "Google employee insists..."

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