Microsoft hasn’t been known for good engineering for… a long time, but this seems like the type of idea an undergrad with zero real world experience might come up with (or I guess AI).

This is why I avoid corporate languages like this. Swift and Go are also on my “hell no” list.

CouchDB (a no-sql db, but whatever) automatically provides a REST API that’s designed to be exposed directly to clients. It even implements its own client-facing authentication system. “queries” are configured in advance from the admin side, and clients just pull the results, allowing for very efficient caching. Basically, if you RTFM enough to get a couchdb instance running, you have 90%-100% of your backend complete. You could create an entire scalable full-stack app using only client-side code… and if you’re clever with HTMX, you might even be able to do it without writing any javascript at all! (I tried once, but failed because I’m not that clever, but it’s definitely probably possible)

So TL;DR: I like couchdb, and the idea of exposing your database directly to users isn’t unprecedented. I wonder if there are any SQL databases that offer a similar thing?

No, I just don’t like it. (I won’t clarify why, because Godot has a bit of a toxic fan base, and I don’t feel like dealing with that)

Just another game engine 🤷

What’s the logo between Guix and C?

Found the soydev

An RTO mandate isn’t growth. Growth would be if they mandated all hard drives containing Teams source code be thrown into a dumpster, and the dumpster lit on fire.

There’s a good documentary about this.

bash supports this feature too btw

Another reason to use Linux is to spare yourself the Windows CMD prompt syntax

being inserted automatically.

Aka the entire point of RAII

This non-sarcastically. The operating system is better at cleaning up memory than you, and it’s completely pointless to free all your allocations if you’re about to exit the program. For certain workloads, it can lead to cleaner, less buggy code to not free anything.

It’s important to know the difference between a “memory leak” and unfreed memory. A leak refers to memory that cannot be freed because you lost track of the address to it. Leaks are only really a problem if the amount of leaked memory is unbounded or huge. Every scenario is different.

Of course, that’s not an excuse to be sloppy with memory management. You should only ever fail to free memory intentionally.