gollark

Human memory is notoriously unreliable. Did you try asking the mind spiders?

Making Minecraft clones/replacements. There are rather a lot.

I feel like this has been tried a lot and not worked.

Applications are processed at random using memetics, although actually reminding us of them will probably work.

REAL programmers just make computers do all division tasks.

You should probably not use it for anything but approved microwave uses. They are unsafe.

Maybe I could set up some automation to do a page a day and we could discuss it (although getting people to do that would be nontrivial).

But I'm enjoying the Apioforum reading experience! I guess I could just post modern translations myself in segments.

While I'm theoretically interested in Old English epic poetry slightly, I can only guess at what most of this means. Please offer a modern English translation or you won't have.

Your incautious actions have doomed us all. It is far too late now.

Implode immediately.

Terse and still somewhat comprehensible, I mean, sorry. While it might technically be possible to implement things like generics with weird workarounds, it seems like nobody actually does this, so I cannot, say, conveniently import a generic hashtable like I can in Rust and use it on anything I want. There are other things like lack of ADTs which are problematic.

Regardless, I don't think C is actually "powerful" in any relevant sense. It lets you mess with memory in low-level ways, but this isn't something most programs actually need as much as end up doing as an implementation detail and/or horrible security problem. It doesn't let you define many nice abstractions or write code in general and terse ways.

There are build tools which can write the WASM bindings for you.

I agree that all programming languages are vaguely terrible in some way, but my preferences disagree with all your examples. C is irritatingly low-level, nonexpressive and unsafe, Perl is eldritch, and you don't even need to use JS on the web nowadays.

rustc is, as far as I know, quite tightly tied to cargo. They add features to it to make cargo work correctly. I don't really care about this because it's a very nice build tool.

Rust takes power away from the programmer because it makes it completely impossible to do things that people often very well have a damn good reason for doing, forcing developers to make bloated, slow programs, all done in a crazed pursuit of "safety"

The developers did actually recognize that this could be an issue, hence "unsafe blocks". You're just not really meant to use them all the time, and it isolates the unsafety to those regions.

This isn't accidental—it's explicitly stated as its goal. It's a bit like governments banning books because "think of the children!!!11!!!" except nowhere near as big of a deal.

I do not think it's particularly valid to compare equate government "safety" to programming language "safety", and not just because of unsafe blocks. It is generally easier to opt out of writing in a particular programming language than it is to opt out of a government doing a thing.

In addition, it locks programmers and users into a specific ecosystem, which people get all pissy about when proprietary-software companies do it, yet when Rust does it it's for some reason seen as okay despite being just as much of a hostile tactic.

There are some Rust libraries which export C-usable interfaces, most notably regex, which I believe is actually being trialled as a replacement for Python's re module.

Furthermore, the official community surrounding Rust uses an immoral code of law that allows for infinite punishment to be given to people, allows punishment to be given without a fair trial, and allows punishment for actions committed outside of the jurisdiction of the Rust community.

I mean, I haven't looked at this, but I think most communities informally work this way anyway.

You could have power and control over Minoteaur.

Additionally, just abstractly wanting an active forum is probably bad. You should try and work out what sort of interesting and valuable community you want to/could create.

Why not make Minoteaur? As many as two people have expressed interest in it.

Well, Minoteaur has been rewritten 8.1 times and that went really well for it.

It would have been funny if we made the post numbers vast randomly generated integers, I think.

Aesthetic concerns were raised with your site, but the main reason your application hasn't been approved is that some of the Council doesn't want to associate with you given your past actions.

We could probably offer an embed with more CSS controls/plain link formatting, right?

Strictly speaking, if it requires a separate receiver thing, it isn't a Bluetooth keyboard. Unless that receiver thing is a general-purpose USB Bluetooth radio. The non-Bluetooth wireless ones probably run on some accursed proprietary wireless protocol, so I would not trust them.

• nomic where the rules are expressed as pictograms or something

Yes. They are on a Minecraft server I am on.

This is not a remotely valid application and you're not. Please stop randomly trying to copy half of the random things I do for no good reason.