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cocoa19 commented on Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?    · Posted by u/lincoln20xx
diego_moita · 25 days ago
> I wouldn't really recommend a career out of it.

Care to say why? I ask because that's what I use at work: C++ and Qt

Yes, I'd prefer Rust and Slint/Tauri.

But like a prostitute I don't do what I love, I do what pays the bills.

cocoa19 · 24 days ago
> Yes, I'd prefer Rust and Slint/Tauri.

Ah, you like masochism I see. I bet you use it for your personal projects, but not at all for commercial projects. It’s just not there yet.

cocoa19 commented on SF may soon ban natural gas in homes and businesses undergoing major renovations   sfchronicle.com/sf/articl... · Posted by u/mikhael
tlogan · a month ago
This is an excellent way to solve the housing crisis in San Francisco: sarcasm fully intended.

Stories like this just reinforce the obvious: the housing crisis is a problem of our own making. Wealthy residents and NIMBYs consistently show they have no interest in helping the poor, the homeless, or working-class people who simply want a place to live. The ones hit hardest are usually younger generations.

This should not be a political issue. Whether on the left or the right, rich people will always find a reason (legal, aesthetic, environmental, religious, etc.) to avoid fixing the housing problem. The excuses vary, but the outcome is the same.

cocoa19 · a month ago
> The ones hit hardest are usually younger generations

Reminds me of prop 13. If you challenge grandma having a $3M house paying peanuts for property taxes you are a monster.

If you defend young people that are ready to start a family, "they can kick rocks and move to Bumfuck, Middle-Of-Nowhere, no one is entitled to live in the Bay Area".

cocoa19 commented on The POSIX specification of vi   pubs.opengroup.org/online... · Posted by u/exvi
nickandbro · a month ago
Love vi, made a Vimgolf like app called:

https://vimgolf.ai

because I like vi so much. Although the app uses neovim underneath the hood because it had an easier API to work with.

cocoa19 · a month ago
Can I suggest dropping the sign up requirement and email verification to try it out?
cocoa19 commented on What Problems to Solve (1966)   genius.cat-v.org/richard-... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
cocoa19 · 2 months ago
This echoes what I have thought about my career. What to work on.

I've been blessed to have a good paying career in software engineering, but I've never really felt passionate about the products I work on. At the end of the day, my job is a paycheck. I do feel joy solving problems for others, improve society, be able to answer colleagues questions when they "come to my office". My family is happy that I can provide and that I am a role model for them.

I sometimes think I should work on things that make me happier. Sometimes I think that my career path is a mistake, I should work on problems "closer to god", make more meaningful contributions, build the next Kubernetes/ChatGPT/Google/<insert revolutionary product>, advance AI, climate change. I end giving up, I'm not that ambitious or driven.

I'm important to my family and colleagues. That may be good enough.

cocoa19 commented on Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust   trifectatech.org/blog/bzi... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
tiffanyh · 3 months ago
I think that is the goal of uutils.

https://uutils.github.io/

cocoa19 · 3 months ago
I hope some are improved too.

The performance boost in tools like ripgrep and tokei is insane compared to the tools they replace (grep and cloc respectively).

cocoa19 commented on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me   vincents.dev/blog/rust-de... · Posted by u/chaosprint
andybak · 4 months ago
This is where a) a strong stdlib and b) community consensus on common packages tends to help at least mitigate the problem.

My feeling is that Python scores fairly well in this regard. At least it used to. I haven't been following closely in recent years.

cocoa19 · 4 months ago
A lot of people dunk on Java, but its standard library is rock solid. It even is backward compatible (mostly).
cocoa19 commented on Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down   yourserverisdown.com... · Posted by u/SantiagoVargas
cocoa19 · 4 months ago
Who’s this built for and what is the use case?

This tool wouldn’t be useful for most (if not) all enterprise services I’ve worked for. For enterprise, you want fully featured synthetics services such as Thousand Eyes, plus an internal monitoring and alerting system.

Also you typically don’t want to expose your health endpoint to the outside world. It’s a security risk.

cocoa19 commented on Why is this site built with C   marcelofern.com/posts/c/w... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
dietr1ch · 5 months ago
> dangerously productive

As in SIGSEGV dangerous? C is a language so simple that together with the lack of libraries it'll drag you down to problems you were not going to stumble into in most alternatives.

Sure, eventually you'll get your own scars and learn the hard way lessons that will stick and give you better intuition on how things work, but I don't feel there's need to keep using C these days beyond learning and doing specific low level stuff.

cocoa19 · 5 months ago
I’ll take a SIGSEGV bug any day over working on memory corruption issues. I have some nasty battle scars in that area.
cocoa19 commented on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster   zdnet.com/home-and-office... · Posted by u/belter
dimator · 7 months ago
No one has ever cared of you're good at writing essays in the future, that was true 50 years ago.

The point of writing an essay was to (imo) get good at writing (actually assembling words cogently), thinking about a cohesive viewpoint/argument, and understanding the source material (book, novel, historical event, political concept, whatever).

I'm

cocoa19 · 7 months ago
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