[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is the Secure Boot shim thing related to Windows breaking dual-boot setups of late? Are they all updating to avoid some kind of Secure Boot issue in general?

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

I just found https://google.github.io/comprehensive-rust/ today. Structured course developed by Google for its Android devs.

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

I found it completely by accident. Was looking at their GitHub repos for something, and saw this in there. I might even try to go through some of it (though I also want to get better at Nim).

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[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Struggling a little with this too. The distance of time is my biggest grief: it's hard to apply for jobs, when my most relative experience for various roles is 5-10 years old. And the further along in my career, the less there is to show, or people to speak up for what I accomplished. "Did I really do that, at all"... worst case of imposter syndrome I can think of.

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 16 points 11 months ago

I think that's been asked before. That'd be a massive undertaking, and they also support architectures that I don't think Rust does (yet).

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

A lot of commercial apps are built with it. And if you're not using Kotlin, you're probably using Java for Android dev.

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

He went from a let-and-let-live, free-loving libertarian; to a more "kooky" libertarian. IMO, he was more palatable 20 years ago than now; though it's hard to top the fall-from-grace Stallman has had...

[-] unquietwiki@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

If any of you happen to still be on Reddit, I actually maintain a "catalog" of these newer languages, as they come across my radar. One of my more recent finds is MiniScript, which the author of that has been using to port a fair amount of classic BASIC games from that GitHub archive I posted about recently. I got sucked into Nim, which seems like a good synthesis of Python, Javascript, and C++; c/nim exists for anyone interested.

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Saw this on Hacker News; it's an ongoing compendium of classic BASIC games, rewritten in up to 10 accepted programming languages; as well as space for "alternative" languages.

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Zen of Nim (nim-lang.org)

I hadn't seen any posts here about Nim yet, and wanted to find one that was a good introduction to it. "Zen of Nim" from 2021 appears to describe the language fairly well, and is based on a presentation from the language's creator.

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