Unfortunately, it’s the only sane cross-language ABI option there is.

C++ is a close second, which is mostly because C++ uses the C ABI wherever it can.

Even if the language itself is obsolete, it will live on for many more years just because of that.

10% is the VAT of food in my country.

Your average citizen pays more than 10% of their food budget in taxes. This nazi’s wealth is bigger than the yearly production of most countries. 10% is nothing.

EDIT: he’s a nazi, not a dude.

I didn’t know the 3+ back tick thing. It’s probably only useful for this specific scenario, but nice to know. Ty!

The true horror is the post formatting though.

Put everything inside a triple backtick ``` block.

Like so (withouth the \, idk why they show up)

\`\`\`
The code goes here
\`\`\`

Go to crates.io, search for whatever you need. Most probably it will be multiplatform.

There are plenty of cross-platform libraries in rust. In fact, most of them are. Since Rust is cross-platform at its core.

“plugins” is not a feature. What plugin specifically do you need? Most probably you can accomplish whatever you need with a library and iced. Plugin is just a fancy word for library.

Yeah. That’s a huge issue rust has. However, it can’t be solved with Rc.

You either do it in safe rust, by “cheating” the borrow checker and storing a size offset of the buffer instead of a reference. Or just use unsafe rust and store a raw pointer alongside the buffer.

This is not about that. This is about a security researcher that wasn’t paid by Microsoft’s bug bounty program when they found a security bug.

Bug bounty programs exist to prevent this exact scenario. To give people a reward for privately disclosing the vulnerability with the devs instead of publicly/to a bad actor.

Do you really need tauri?

Tauri is for web devs that want to make GUIs with web tech in rust. You can do GUIs without web tech.

If you really want to make a GUI with rust, you can use iced.

If you just want a GUI with web tech, do it in JavaScript+html.

If you want a GUI without web tech and don’t care the language, use a GUI toolkit for your preferred language.

Learning a GUI toolkit is hard. Learning a language is hard. Learning both at the same time is even harder than the sum.

Do you really need that much Rc? That is, do you really need multiple ownership for a piece of data in a single thread? It is rarely the case, many times you can get away by just borrowing that data.

ARc is harder to avoid, since across threads you often really need the multiple ownership.

Next is, do you need RefCell? Or would a simple Cell in some of the struct fields be enough?

The standard way to link in rust is statically.

Due to a technicality, statically linking a GPL library means the final program has to be GPL too. So they basically can’t make GPL libraries.

Why not use LGPL instead of MIT? Idk.

Which doesn’t mean it was written by an LLM. This has been standard corporate speak from before LLMs existed.

Because those services are actually useful. LLMs are just plagiarism machines. The only way they are remotely useful is because they “saved” a lot of money by stealing all the data on the internet. And even then, they have to operate at a huge loss. They’re also stealing from everyone by getting government subsidies and by ignoring environmental laws.

Remember, just because data is on the internet, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an owner.

If billionaires played by everyone’s rules and had to operate with profit, LLMs would be so incredibly expensive that no one would use them. They only seem remotely useful because basically all of society is footing part of the bill.

For the other services provided for data centers, whoever uses them does pay them, and it’s not expensive. You don’t need 5GW to serve a 30 minute video.

Yes. It ends up in the ocean. Where there is infinite water. Do you know why there are places with almost no water, even though there is an “infinite” water source on earth? It’s not because they live far from the ocean. It is because ocean water is salty. Salty water is not apt for human consumption.

When you throw fresh water in the ocean, you are essentially destroying that water. Even if the H2O molecules are still there.

The problem is not what policies I support.

The problem is aunt Ben that lives in the middle of nowhere. Who hates the gays and communists. But lives paycheck to paycheck.

The social left/social right split is about 50%. Some places higher, some lower. But there is a LOT of working people. And most of those will not vote against their own interests. It’s only when they have to choose between “not my best interest, but at least there won’t be drag queens in my son’s school” and “probably my best interest, but they also want to put drag queens in my son’s school. So they’re probably lying about the good things, politicians always lie”. They’ll choose the latter.

It doesn’t matter that there is no political party that wants to put drag queens in schools. It is only important that aunt Ben thinks that is true.

If you focus on the economy, and ignore the social left, will the left gain enough votes to have power.

Only when you have power you can slowly go for the social issues.

This is what the right has done in the US. They’ve been claiming they’ll bring the good economy, and just leave the social issues as they were before. Slowly the US economy has drifted rightwards. So much so that the only 2 parties are economic right. So now it is the time to turn the social right on. They went full fascism and are killing the minorities and whoever supports them in protest.

Just follow the same playbook. “We’re leaving the rules as they are, we won’t engage in discussions about culture wars”, “but we’re gonna tax the rich and give US citizens universal healthcare”. Once both parties are pro-universal healthcare, go for public transport, then anti-anti-union measures. And once the economy is leftwing enough, you can start with the culture wars.

I’m not talking about the US. My country has more than 1 leftist party. But they focus on the social-left side and forget about the economic-left one.

You either make driving fast less safe, or you put a speed camera on every corner with the appropriate punishment. Cameras are expensive, and drivers will complain about them. If you make driving fast less safe, only the ones that remember how the road was before can complain about it.

Finally someone in the left that gets it.

I don’t want to vote left because of progressivism. I want to vote left because boss earns a dollar while I earn a dime.

For a long time I’ve been saying, leftist parties would have way more success if they focused on helping 90% of the population (the working class) instead of the minority 1%. They will help minorities the most by helping the working class anyway. They can’t help the minorities if they don’t get the majority’s vote.

The thing is not who does it. The thing is who complains about it.