How annoying is it to call C code from Rust? Do I have to write a wrapper for every single function?

(That's one of the things we love about Swift, it does that automatically, but I don't know if that's common.)

What's a good object-oriented language that
– isn't C++ or Java or Python
– can call C libraries
– either can be used with stuff in most Linux package managers, or be statically linked?

Rust is tempting, but it's also got a bit of a learning curve. I'd use Swift, but it's not in package managers and I can't statically link it, so I can't really distribute binaries to people.

Hey, how do you do simple audio synthesis on Linux [programmatically]? I bet there's libraries for that but I don't know what to use...

I want to remake the ocarina from Zelda Ocarina of Time. :3

Hot take: Permanent configuration (like repository locations, or whether to not spy on me) should not be stored only in an environment variable.

Able to set it with an environment variable? Sure, go for it! But give me a config option too please.

So how is the PinePhone these days?

Thinking about getting one at some point but I don't know if it'd be usable.

We don't need it to do actual /phone/ stuff at this point because we're keeping our iPhone, but being able to use it as a pocket computer would be pretty cool.