@_manpat I get that we have terabytes of space now, but I genuinely think mindsets like that is the reason why we have bloated poorly made software. You're not wrong, but you're glazing over quite an important factor that's greatly dismissed these days due to carelessness.

@iquilezles I feel half of the problem is that people don't quite understand when branching actually occurs, and then get convinced by the whole "ternary/if-else is bad because branching". This clarification helps, but I'm thinking more could be said about when complex branching does happen

@boquila_ngo I now see that they have certain rules, but even then a GCC compilation would be smaller than MSVC's output. It's good to not just outright believe huge comparisons like this, since it's often biased/skewed in some way

@bloodl1ke back when I was more vocal with my opinions I did get a taste of this haha But nowadays I've been hearing the opposite - with some gentle Rust folks just wanting to program with it, and C programmers just continuing the shit throwing haha we all need to chill a bit 🥲

@JulienJoestar yeah, well that's the thing - the other take my old man has is: "use whatever language for the job", which is the true daily decider. if it be Python, JavaScript, C++, Lua, etc

@EskilSteenberg it's funny because there's truth to this - Rust was made with premeditations to "be better/safer than C". I wish it just had its own path and none of this "competition" existed. But then again it's also making me appreciate C's simple freedoms

@raspbfox They're dissing Rust because Rust programmers tend to also diss C - it's a feedback loop that just builds ragebait and anger. Because yes, I personally believe the two can co-exist. It's the social wars that make me dislike it. Which is pretty much how Linus sees it too

@c64cosmin both Rust and C can exist, it's just when it becomes a public war is when I get frustrated. But yes, I prefer a compiler that doesn't control my memory structure. If it's wrong then I'd want to learn and be better, rather than relying on it to correct me. Each to their own haha

@Barteks2x That's an amusing take, can't disagree with that. I've always liked how you just run a .jar file you have - would be nice to be able to do that with .c files (I'm sure something out there exists that compiles+runs .c files with a double click haha)

@JulienJoestar My father is a hardware engineer, and whenever I mention Rust he goes on about "people have been trying to make better languages than C for as long as C has been around" Another will one day exist that competes with Rust, and so forth

@akmal4163 Odin is neat, would like to spend more time with it at some point

kinda sucks how a majority of things I see online these days is just some form of rage bait for engagement. I spend most of my internet-time watching game-streamers and science/tech videos on youtube haha it's good to be mindful what enters your eyes.

@walaber I absolutely love this, and the palette looks great!

@zjdelicious wishing you the best, the outdoors is really healing and I hope you get to enjoy it again soon~!

@strager @XorDev literally a 50% alpha blend, which yes is RGB blending, but my point still stands haha I've done this before, OKLAB "over-blends" the hue, and the RGB blend doesn't do it enough. So you mix the two and hey, suddenly it looks really natural and pleasant

@Cannonbreed that's very impressive for freehand, holy moly

@XorDev @strager my hot take: the average is the more optically-pleasing gradient