Moving to rust

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[–] 286 points 7 months ago* (17 children)

This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to Java, so it can run everywhere.

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  • [–] 99 points 7 months ago* (4 children)
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  • [–] 201 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 42 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Only Claude's frontend leaked, not the models

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  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    To which Anthropic answered by open sourcing the whole thing under AGPL. Didn't you see the news?

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    Ew another reason to ignore it and wait for Servo instead

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  • [–] 86 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Just make a rust fork of ffmpeg, it can be ffmpreg.

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  • [+] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 133 points 7 months ago (22 children)

    What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol

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  • [–] 96 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Ah, just realized what day it is

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    East Coast here, it's not even midnight for another 4 minutes!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    But the message says it was sent on March 31st.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 66 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You can embed Assembly in Rust. A lot of low-level Rust projects embed Assembly.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The person behind their twitter account is a notorious shitter.

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  • [–] 104 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)
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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Was jokingly going to suggest a WASM version. But then: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm only asking this half jokingly, what the fuck?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Huh, I guess the person who runs FFmpeg's Xitter account must live in western Europe (UTC+1:00).

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  • [–] 56 points 7 months ago

    Rust should switch to ffmpeg!

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    The reason I don't use C, because I don't hate my life.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    So begins the festival of fools.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Is green the high vis color in Europe?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Took me like 5 second after reading this to understand that it's April 1st.

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  • [–] 48 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Further proof that this is the shittiest holiday only celebrated by the most insufferable.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Everyone knows that Swift is the language of the future!

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    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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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It's about time!

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