2026-11-08 00:02 UTC
Systems programming software: (is mostly written in well-specified, simple languages for which multiple implementations exist, allowing you to pivot from one vendor to another if needed)
Software industry: (is pivoting hard to the destruction of the commons through matrix multiplication)
Certain people who end up in my mentions: "HURRY, GUYS! We need to rewrite everything in a complex incompletely-specified language with one viable implementation/package ecosystem, controlled by a single team that includes AI boosters, and is currently in the news for DHH vibing in it. No time to lose, it's for the secure future of computing."
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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-11-08 00:04
@MaddieM4@raphus.social This isn't a dig at everyone who uses Rust. Plenty of Rust users aren't like that. But if you do feel targeted by this, consider changing your behavior, and then you won't feel targeted anymore. It's so simple, it just might work!
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@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-11-08 00:09
@MaddieM4@raphus.social The groundwork for CHERI did not directly attempt to refute TRACTOR. That was left as an exercise for the reader.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-11-08 05:04
@MaddieM4@raphus.social Pivot from LLVM (which is controlled by AI boosters) to GCC (which is controlled by AI boosters) or MSVC (which is controlled by AI boosters)? C++ has a formal spec, true, but I don't see how that helps the situation.