Recent_opinions

Some opinions that have recently percolated into the packet’s awareness. Preserved here for our later amusement at how foolish I could be.

• Rust is hard:
  • builds are slow
  • cross-compilation is hard (especially for -sys packages.)
  • Good luck getting a Rust/C++ binary to cross-compile.
  • hard to learn
• The Rust evangelization has found stony ground in the packet. I am almost always fine with sacrificing a small amount of performance to excuse me from anticipating the complexities of object lifetimes. Please some of you (who will certainly never read this) (but I know who I’m thinking of) stop claiming that Go servers are crippled by the costs of automatic garbage collection while using all of those webapps.
• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks is like magic. No really. It is. I didn’t believe how easy it was to get it working until I ran it and was delighted.
• u-root/cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command is also magic once one understands the incantations. The packet should write more about the way of cpu. Or maybe just more about anything.