Linux is in a weird spot, there is a valley you must not be in with it.

If you are a non-technical person who needs only a browser and solitaire, it’s perfect.

If you are a highly technical person, it’s great.

If you’re just in between, you are fucked.

That might be ugly, but something like that…

BuT nO OnE WaNtS tO WoRk AnYmOrE1

Yeah, when you’re having fun pissing off people, people are pissed off.

Who would have guessed?

But still right on though

Or a spoon

🎵🎶…Sweet dreams are made of this… 🎶🎵

It’s not enough to pollute the Internet, it’s time to pollute the world with radioactive waste.

That’s brilliant!

Ok

For example, when you login on Github, go in your settings, authentication & security on the left.

Click “add passkey”, enter your Windows Hello PIN, click save.

It will ask you to enter a name, so I go with ComputerName-GitHub

Click ok.

Done with this device.

How long does it take? Well, how fast can you do these steps?

I always thought of passkeys as a convenient way to authenticate.

I am password-less on multiple services.

I have an authentication app on my phone that authenticate me when I am away of my computers. I have passkeys on my personal computer and another set of passkeys on my work laptop.

If I have to authenticate from your computer I simply use my auth app, click on “it’s a public computer” and I am good to go.

The dude discovered a butter knife and he tries to replace his spoon with it just to realize it doesn’t work well for eating a soup.

Ok I understand now. You are right. Thank you.

All party crpg like pillars of eternity, Baldur’s Gate, and the like.

JRPG maybe…

It’s when you’re at the point of saying that unsafe is safe, it’s the point where you should just shut it up kid…

I don’t know what you are talking about?

Rust is such an amazing language, it’s so safe and clean and beautiful and simple and clear to read and such wow community that are making amazing crates for cargo because cargo is so cool I like it so much so easy to…

Oh, and your fav lang sux alot!1 lolololllll

• Zig uses allocators, which will inform you if you are leaking memory.
• Zig comes with defer/errdefer to simplify the resource cleanup (and for ergonomics).
• Zig comes with Optionals to manage nulls.
• Zig comes with slices (ptr + size) to manage all the bound-checking.
• Zig automatically check for overflow/underflow arithmetic.
• Zig will check for pointer alignments when casting between pointer types.

=> Zig is designed to make you do it right easily, and very hard to do it wrong.

In other words, Zig will let you be, but warn you when you are doing something wrong, where Rust is like Karen who is always screaming at you for every word you are typing.

To summarize, you really need to /want/ to fuck up to fail your memory management… If after all that you still can’t manage your memory, it might be better for you to look for another carer.

Something is sure thou, Zig is very safe - just as it’s safe to cut my veggies with a knife. I might cut a finger and bleed a little bit, but I will not use plastic knife “because it’s safer”.

Moreover; You are talking like if Rust is safe, all the time, which is not true in reality:

52.5% of the popular crates have unsafe code. Therefore, in an average real-world Rust project, you can expect a significant number of the dependent crates to have unsafe code – Source

Basically, you’re comparing a hypothetical world where Rust is always safe to a superficial glance at Zig’s capabilities to claim a “winner” here.

And for the String library… Are you fucking serious? Do you want to compare the Zig’s Std library versus the famously tiny Rust Std library? Really?

Rust in Linux lead retires

“I was expecting [Rust] updates to be faster, but part of the problem is that old-time kernel developers are used to C and don’t know Rust,” Torvalds said. “They’re not exactly excited about having to learn a new language that is, in some respects, very different. So there’s been some pushback on Rust.” Torvalds added, however, that “another reason has been the Rust infrastructure itself has not been super stable.” – Source [24-09-03]

I’m not sure that’s something to be crowing about, mate…

So, you are telling Rust is named after the pathogenic fungus (cause disease) and the logo is a crab, just like the logo of Cancer?

That fits well with the language and its community. Well done!

C wasn’t my first language, but I learnt the most whilst learning C…

People are talking about footguns and what not security related issues. I agree it’s easy to write bad C code, but if you want to learn what’s going on, learn C.

Today I know a dozen of programming languages and C has always been in a special place in my heart. I am using Zig for my personal projects at the moment. It’s similar to C, without the pitfalls, and my C knowledge still helped me to learn that language.

Learning C is a service you are doing to yourself for the rest of your life.

I think you’re making a lot of misinterpretation; but that’s up to you…

But, just so that I can understand correctly… When you’re saying: “if I need something more […] I click terminal tab”

That “terminal tab” of yours, it’s a CLI isn’t it?

I always love watching people falling for Clown-Bob’s advises…

Let’s go, let’s eat shit on toasts! It’s just a matter of how thin you can spread it to hide the taste…