Wonder how much of this relates to SUSE? How “normie-tolerant” is that? I’ve been printing for years without any issues for instance, and have a HP printer that used to hate my linux OS with a passion.

What was difficult in your experience?

Huh odd, I guess it depends quite heavily on the system? Just to check I cleaned my build folder and am building now, ~700 files that take around 5 minutes to compile. I don’t notice a thing, CPU (Ryzen 7 7700X ) is fully maxed out. I know that I do notice it on my laptop, but there reducing from 16 to 12 or even 14 is enough. Having to reduce to 4 is very different from what I experience. Currently on manjaro, the laptop has ubuntu.

If you don’t want compilation to take all cores, use one or two cores less for the compile. I frequently compile C++ code, almost always I just let it max out 100%, haven’t been really bothered by the lag. When I’m in a teams meeting for instance it can cause noticable lag so then I do ninja -n 8 or ninja -n 12 and problem solved.

Cross-platform and performant, are there options besides C++ and rust?

I was very surprised yesterday to find out that Unreal Engine now offers native linux builds as well as linux targets. Works flawlessly too. So with all the hate linux seems to be getting from them from what you read in the occasional blog post, they must have devs working only on this support.

If I wrote an IDE and detected tabs I’d just have it delete the codebase

Qt Creator also embeds a terminal now, I immediately switch it off, but I’m probably an atypical user. I always have a separate terminal open instead, where i typically have 4 or 5 tabs open.

The dosubot also downvoted its own first post in that thread lmao

Rebasing is basically copy/paste of commits. I do it all the time, to keep a feature branch updated with develop for instance.

By using big data on the IOT of course!

I read through the better part of a linked thread: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/ncbawciyybdksecurmsc@forum.dlang.org?page=1. And wow, as a C++ user, I’m not sure if I should feel blessed about how stable and backwards-compatible the language is, or that D users must be bonkers to put up with the breakages. Using C++ both professionally and for hobby projects, in the last 5 or so years I can remember encountering exactly 1 (gcc) compiler bug. There was a simple workaround + someone else had already reported it so with the next minor update the bug was fixed. And the code that triggered it was a nested CRTP spawn of hell so I didn’t blame the compiler from borking on it in the first place, it would’ve been better for everyone had it never compiled :p

Upgrading a major C++ compiler version was never free in my experience, but even when working in a codebase with ~2M LOC the upgrade (e.g. 14 -> 17) was something that could be prepared in a set of feature branches by one person over the span of one, maybe two weeks. That’s for fixing compile errors, I don’t remember if we had issues with runtime errors due to an upgrade, but if we did it must’ve been minor because I remember the transition to 17 was pretty smooth. Note that 14 -> 17 requires changing the requested C++ version for the project, which is different from upgrading the actual compiler, i.e. you can do the latter without the former and your code should not require any changes.

Indeed. They say they’ve been repeatedly featured on the front page of HN and the site didn’t fall over, I’ve seen many examples that did.

This presented a fraudulent focus on diversity.

What a day to be able to read

Thanks for posting, we use scratch in our montly CoderDojo, will be certain to give this a look!

I think motivation is a bit more nuanced than that. Also what is said isn’t restricted to programmers. Money is an external motivator, which means it isn’t really motivating as in providing fulfillment and energy when doing a job. It can give you a reason to to the job, “it pays the bills” or “it pays the bills extremely well”, but that’s something different.

That being said, I do look for jobs where I am motivated about the projects and the environment. In fact this is the main thing I evaluate when applying for a position. I also expect to be (and am) well-paid but I’m not aiming for the top bucks, because those jobs don’t interest me. I’m spending 8 hours a day doing this work, a big majority of the high-quality hours of the week are sunk into the job. I’m happy I get to spend them doing things I enjoy, with people I enjoy working with, as opposed to having to slog through them just because I need the money.