In the UK unless your parents are particularly poor it is not that common to support them.

We have a socialised pension that most should be able to live on. And most people have private or government pensions as well.

I was talking more generally about LLMs here

I’ve found they’re great as a learning tool where decent docs are available. Or as an interactive docs you can ask follow up questions to.

We mostly use c# and it’s amazing at digging into the MS docs to pull out useful things from the bcl or common patterns.

Our new juniors got up to speed so fast by asking it to explain stuff in the existing codebases. Which in turn takes pressure off more senior staff.

I got productive in vuejs in a large codebase in a couple days that way.

Using to generate actual code is insanely shit haha It is very similar to just copy pasting code and hacking it in without understanding it.

I think with http request failures losing the status code can be a real pain. There’s a big difference between 400, 401, 404 and 500 for instance.

I wouldn’t call bad readability a loaded gun really. Your dev tools will hopefully make it pretty easy to learn the type. It should be a minor inconvenience at best.

The problem with dynamic typing is you can’t always figure out what the type is even with investigation as it can be lots of things based on what is passed or returned. It also allows incorrect values to be passed.

People will indeed make that readability argument but if the type is not obvious and important to understanding the code then it likely shouldn’t be used there.

auto isn’t dynamic typing it’s just type inference. It still has a fixed type you just don’t have to write it. Like var in C#.

Lambdas are just a way of defining methods in place. It has nothing to do with callbacks.

But you’re spot on for memory safety. Managing it yourself is risky and if it can be managed at zero cost it seems stupid not to.

Pretty much is in reality. But not literally zero, no.

Yeah it’s like a 0 effort thing to try

It has an orange end and triggers on it which marks it as a toy gun. So they’d be fine most likely. But it’s still a stupid move.

There’s a trend of blaming all mistakes on autism. It’s kind of like a nothing is my fault type thing. People I know with autism definitely do it sometimes but I get the feeling many people who don’t have it do it as well.

My son went through a similar phase recently where he decided he believed in God but he only used it to blame everything on God.

So he’d trip up and say “Thanks God!”.

Let’s be real they’re both fascist states. I don’t think Russia even claims to be Communist.

You’re unpleasant to talk to.

I guess you can argue it’s already written in C. So that was always a requirement.

I mean I’ve still yet to hear a reason not to use rust tbf.

But yes that’s what working in a team is like.

I have to do stuff at work so I don’t fuck over the frontend team. I don’t throw a little tantrum about it.

I think the point is they aren’t forcing it at all. It’s being used with the blessing of Linux Jesus and the others are just throwing their toys out of the pram because they don’t want to learn it.

Someone else linked the video on this post. They are rude as hell and the rust dev isn’t even asking them to use it.

Again I think that’s a bad attitude towards technology. Use the best tool for the job and you’d get used to the syntax pretty quickly.

It’s like someone who started on python not wanting to learn a c style language.

It is literally being pushed for its technical merits and traits.

Memory safe code with comparable performance in the kernel seems like an absolute no brainer.

Also if you watch the video all he’s asking for is consistent interfaces for the file systems. He’s not even trying to get them to use rust. And the guy starts screeching about how he’ll code however he wants.

Is it wrong to expect a consistent and well documented interface?

Pretty sure C is actually being pushed against its technical merits here.

Wow what an absolute dick

Here’s the thing, you’re not going to force all of us to learn Rust

That seems like a poor attitude imo.

Start with a git GUI application. I use git extensions on windows.

You’ll be able to get a feel for how it all works and it actually shows you the commands it’s running.

I also use bingai a lot when learning. The more specific your question the more likely you are to run into hallucinations and that. But for explaining basic concepts or query things that are well documented it’s really good.

It also sources it’s answers so you can follow the link for further reading if needed.

Just don’t trust it to generate large amounts of code.