I bet it goes the way of Edge, where they just tap out and “fork” Claude.

So in the D vs Zig vs Rust vs C fight - learn d if speed is your thing?

That only applies in an apples-to-apples comparison, i.e., same data structures, same algorithm, etc. You can't compare sorting in C and Python, but use bubble sort in C and radix sort in Python.

In here there are different data structures being used.

> D[HO] and Julia [HO] footnote: Uses specialized datastructures meant for demonstration purposes: more ↩ ↩2

You're right of course but it also depends on how long you want to spend on it. If Python gives you radix sort directly and the C implementation you can have with the same time is bubble sort because you spent much time setting up the project and finding the right libs it kinda makes sense.

Python doesn't come with Radix sort, and Julia doesn't come with

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Don't know about D but C, Zig and Rust use LLVM so there should be no difference.

Depends on the D compiler. The reference compiler optimizes for compilation speed. LDC is backed by llvm and gdc by gcc.

Can’t tell if this is a sexual comment or a comment on people tattling on each other but thought provoking either way

The author keeps taking jabs at “capitalism” - but let’s be honest that this could happen in any political/economic system. This cheapens the article.

It was done deliberately in the USSR, in a process known as Underground Coal Gasification. Oxygen and steam are injected to convert the coal to syngas (CO + H2) which is brought up to the surface. This allows exploitation of coal deposits that are not suitable for conventional mining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_coal_gasification

I mean there is this that happened in the USSRS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater so indeed it happens in socialist/communist countries too.

There's only one explicit reference to capitalism.

Also a comparison to Chernobyl (which no one would ever think they were anywhere near related.). Clearly the author wanted to communicate “something” more than the interesting takeover by nature.

I would agree that the root cause analysis of these two disasters is pretty different, and not super related to capitalism. But I don't think they were really trying to push that connection.

Blue sky isn’t even close to X

All of these “go back to handcoding” posts seem to be done by very experienced coders. The fact that a less than mediocre coder like me can have sql statements or Python ETL written and tested for me in seconds rather than hours is all I need to see.

How do you know the output is correct?

1) Testing for myself 2) Vibe code testing 3) Team members do work from scratch and try to break 4) can read and reason it out even if I come out with it myself.

To people on HN considering the switch, maybe. My family has zero interest or intention of trying any of these. It stops with me.

As my family's tech support department, i switched them over to linux long ago. For the last decade, my elderly parents used linux laptops and much prefered the stability.

Exactly the kind of whiny blogger I don’t want using Proton products with his squeaky wheel nonsense. Move over to Tutanova or go back to Gmail. What a trivial thing to whine about.

Whining for visibility: that’s even worse.

I have two Verizon phones on very different networks and both have not been working well since Tuesday - anyone also having this? I kept restarting my phones, airplane mode on/off etc