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People like you should be in leadership positions. The landscape rewards quick solutions, and quick solutions are rarely good solutions. “Whatever works” might still be a bad solution, just look at electron and that entire ecosystem.


Mathematicians and software
It is often echoed that mathematicians make excellent software engineers, and that their logic-adjacent work will translate efficiently into coding and designing. I have found this to be almost universally untrue. I might even say the inverse is true. While I and many of my peers have capacity to navigate the mathematical world, it certainly is not what sets us (at least me) apart when designing clever algorithms and software tricks. Point being: I dont think the property/trait that makes good programmers is mathematical literacy. I would love to hear what others experience is regarding this.
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The C++ scope resolution operator is beautiful
Both zig and go use the dot operator, but I find the '::' operator much more readable. ```rust Vec::new(); ``` Makes it clear that were accessing a static method belonging to the Vec struct/namespace. ``` Vec.new() ``` Makes it seem like Vec is an object with a 'new' method. Am I alone in thinking this?
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We dont want a bunch of proprietary extensions to an open communications standard, do we? This is something positive.

That said, I dont have much hope for matrix. Implemented in python with the initial goal of “bridging every chat platform in existence” is just bound to be a disaster.

Maintaining anything beyond a couple of hundred lines in python becomes tedious imo.

The rewrite in go has been spoken about since like 2018, and matrix.org still runs synapse iirc. Synapse should have been trashed immediately after MVP demonstration.

Theres also conduit, but to be honest, i feel like the lesson here is to avoid feature creep. Safe, fast and distributed dm text chat should have been the target functionality, with a lean, mean codebase.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk


Afaik, the way it currently works is by calling via javascript. Ironically, the way strings are handled in the browser is also a major performance block with rust at least.



Assuming danish. Need any more developers? In search for a danish software gig //swede


I would also add IPFS, a REALLY cool piece of tech.

Some really interesting suggestions in this thread that i will definately look into when i find the time.