Rust Evangelism Strike Force drops in:

Imagine living your life without maintaining header files.

Happy to see Rust’s standard library near the top in performance. It’s nice to have a good implementation out of the box.

This has always been the case. When Windows XP came out people hated it needed 64MB (not GB) of RAM, because that was more than the entire disk installation of Windows 95, which was also bloated compared to older Macs and Amigas.

Epic sponsoring Godot was a 4D chess move against Unity.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epic-megagrant/

Use the system webview, you cowards!

Developers bundle all of Chromium, because they’re afraid the OS webview will have a different browser engine. Testing is too hard…

This is such a terrible excuse — usually the same app runs in browsers too, so it already has to deal with even wider variety of browser engines.

The annoying popups are an act of malicious compliance from data harvesting companies. The tracking industry wants people to associate the right to privacy with stupid annoyance, so that people will stop demanding privacy.

The legislation does not say anything about cookies. It’s about rights and responsibilities in data collection (no matter how it’s done technically). The “consent” part of it exists as a compromise, because there has been heavy lobbying against the legislation.

This is not a technical problem — we’ve had many technologies for it, and the industry has sabotaged all of them. There was the P3P spec in 2002! It has been implemented in IE that had 90%+ market share back then. And Google has been actively exploiting a loophole in IE’s implementation to bypass it and have unlimited tracking. Google has paid fines for actively subverting Safari’s early anti-tracking measures. Then browsers tried DNT spec as the simplest possible opt-out, and even that has been totally rejected by the data harvesting industry. There are easy technical solutions, but there are also literally trillions of dollars at stake, and ad companies will viciously sabotage all of it.

With the justification being “I can’t be bothered to decide what is breaking/feature/patch”, so hey, here’s a tool to tell you.

It’s nice they’re moving away from libgit2.

This dependency made rustsec library unusable in any project that used any other version of libgit2, and libgit2 kept making incompatible releases causing fragmentation, churn, and conflicts.

Only signed overflow. size_t is unsigned.

I don’t know about C++, but in Rust the push is inline, and still doesn’t always optimize checks away due to an annoying edge case: integer overflow. Reserving (old_len + new_len) could give you a smaller buffer than new_len. The optimizer sees it and is pedantic about it.