The documentation is usually dog shit.

The corporate culture does not allow appropriate time for the documentation as it is considered something that cost money without a quantifiable gain.

It permeates in the FOSS space as well since writing good documentation is a skill and it is not fostered in corporations. So devs start great projects with terrible documentation.

Yeah, I opened the website thinkint it would be the github list with a better search, but it’s 95% AI crap

Lots of your point apply to any language it seems. I should have specified new projects I guess.

But the points you’ve made are good nonetheless

I know Rust superficially. I use it to create simple tests for my embedded projects, so mostly just serial terminal with keyboard inputs.

It works a lot better for me than python because Rust is a lot closer to C than python.

So I cannot comment on Rust shortcomings. I was interested in knowing for what kind of projects Rust wasn’t good.

I am glad for your comment because I work with mcus and embedded solutions in C, so Rust, in that case, wouldn’t be neccesarily safer than C.

I will have to look into it. I need to do 30h of training every two years, so I will learn Rust regardless, but I was thinking about eventually switching to Rust for embedded projects. Might just keep Rust as my scripting language because it is easier for me than Python

I come from embedded C, so what you describe doesn’t feel alien to me (minus the security vulnerabilities haha)

I much prefer working with Rust restrictions than a higher level language without hard types because I am used to it.

Where would you say Rust isn’t the right solution?

We always hear how great Rust is, but I’d be curious to know where it isn’t.

React tutorial are like that. You create a simple HTML page with a script and the script generates everything.

I had to do a simple webpage for an embedded webserver and the provider of the library recommended preact, the lightweight version of react. Having no webdev experience, I used preact as recommended and it is a nightmare to use and debug.

There was a video a long while ago where a cyclist got a ticket for not riding in the bike lane.

So he filmed himself riding in the bike lanes and crashing into the parked cars there and one of them was a cop.

It’s clear that politicians don’t give a fuck about cyclists.

Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.

Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.

And that’s if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.

A production code should never have any warning left. This is a simple rule that will save a lot of headaches.

This is like the 2 extremes. China with terrible human rights violation and sloppy construction and cities where even thinking about mass public transit is akin to killing puppies.

It’s your fault for their dumb system you dunce. Ask next time dumdum

China social credit started out as something like a credit score where you would get beneficial services/rates with a better score from lenders such as Sesame Credit.

The government took that and applied it to many spheres of the society in a pilot program. I don’t know how it is today since I haven’t looked into that since 2019.

So when you have some car insurers, for example, that offer to put a gps device in your car in exchange for better rates, this is how the social credit system started through private companies.

I have had the same 15ish friends for more than 20 years and we live in different cities, a few hours away from each other.

We don’t see each other frequently because of the distance, but we usually spend weekends together and it feels like we have not missed a beat since the last time we saw each other.

I think it is natural to have more than 10 close friends, it is like having a small community, but modern life made it very hard to keep close friends like that. And it sucks.

Moving is expensive. If you barely scrape by, this id not an option for the vast majority of these people.

In embedded, if you are to the point that you need to optimize the bools to reduce the footprint, you fucked up sizing your mcu.

Yes. But I use a cheap Brother laser printer.

A job I had in the past, everyday, I would get up to a 100 emails per day(I was managing a team).

99% of it was garbage.

One time, I came back to more than 2000 emails from vacations. I told my boss that I would mark them as read and to fill me in on what I nees to look out for, otherwise I would never have gone through all the garbage.

I scrape the bulk of the food in the compost, but it’s more time efficient to let the small chunks get stuck in the filter than trying to get everything over the compost bin.