This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to Java, so it can run everywhere.
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I hope they’re doing it with AI for faster development. Now that Claude is open source, there’s no excuse to refuse progress anymore!
Only Claude's frontend leaked, not the models
To which Anthropic answered by open sourcing the whole thing under AGPL. Didn't you see the news?
You had me for a second
Can't believe people don't link sources anymore. Anyway yeah it just happened today.
Ew another reason to ignore it and wait for Servo instead
Just make a rust fork of ffmpeg, it can be ffmpreg.
The readme is far too serious for such a silly name
What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol
Ah, just realized what day it is
East Coast here, it's not even midnight for another 4 minutes!
But the message says it was sent on March 31st.
Timezones, probably!
A lot of April 1st posts seem to get made on March 31st and that includes from people in fairly western timezones, so I think they just get their post done the previous night, go to sleep, and let the chaos unravel.
I guess not rust itself, but people telling them to switch to rust over and over again. They use a lot of assembly magic to get good performance, they aren't in C land.
You can embed Assembly in Rust. A lot of low-level Rust projects embed Assembly.
Totally, though I wouldn't bother switching if your project is half assembly anyway. Unsafe Rust definitely has some beauty to it, but only if there is some safe Rust to embedd it into
Although if you're doing it a lot, you've basically removed the main advantage of using Rust.
By the way, how is compilation to things other than LLVM going? I haven't checked in a while.
Bro, just use Rust, bro.
We get it, Rust can suck your dick... and more!
The person behind their twitter account is a notorious shitter.
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Are rustaceans cantankerous?
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
My instance went down, so I'm way too late to make this joke, but anyways:
We're not cantankerous, just a little ...crabby. 🙃
It has rabid fans and rabid haters, much of it is some identity politics shit too. It's a whole mess
Was jokingly going to suggest a WASM version. But then: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
I'm only asking this half jokingly, what the fuck?
Makes it portable across architectures while also providing sandboxing.
The fedi software I use (GoToSocial) runs both ffmpeg (Sorry, ffmpreg) and sqlite through WASM, also makes it easier to integrate it with Go code apparently.
Reminder that Fabrice Bellard, who originally wrote FFMpeg (and QEMU), also made JSLinux, currently based on his other PC emulator TinyEMU and using WASM.
WASM is great :) unironically
everything should switch to wasm. i'm not saying this because of arbitrarily. it's just very well thought-through. wasm automatically provides portability, sandboxing, and integration with other languages.
like, one of the things i still don't understand is why we don't have automatic sandboxing for every application. like, when i download and run a new game from steam, why isn't it automatically put in a sandbox? Why does it have full read/write access to my entire disk? i don't like that at all...
Converting everything to wasm would solve that automatically, and very easily on top of that.
Huh, I guess the person who runs FFmpeg's Xitter account must live in western Europe (UTC+1:00).
Is green the high vis color in Europe?
The fluorescent green hi-vis is usually reserved for first-aiders, but there are exceptions. I was working on a site in the middle of some rapeseed fields once, and we all got issued green - anyone wearing yellow or orange was swarmed with insects in moments.
Took me like 5 second after reading this to understand that it's April 1st.
Further proof that this is the shittiest holiday only celebrated by the most insufferable.
Aww. I just like funny stuff.
Everyone knows that Swift is the language of the future!
I don't know what swift is
Mediocre pop star.
It's Apple's programming language, kind of intended as a successor to Objective-C.
From what I hear, it's actually decently designed and has quite a few similarities to Rust. Still not sure, how great it is outside of the Apple ecosystem...

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