One benefit of making videos that feature Zig is having an excuse to put the Zig logo on the thumbnail. Because the Zig logo looks awesome. And also has a nice related emoji. ⚡️
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@jntrnr But yeah, Rust has some solid growth on GitHub. Lower on Stack Overflow for now. But if GH is a sign of future corporate behavior, I think it's likely that Rust will be a fully mainstream option in a few years.
@jntrnr And the query scripts are sort of disorganized, but they are in the repo for those curious. On Go, the main thing I can't figure out is why State of the Octoverse has it so much lower than what I see in my queries. I don't think their queries are public though, and they also maybe use data in a form that's not shared publicly.
And no, that's not actually the reason why I use Zig when I do. But I still like it.
Seems I mostly use github stars like breadcrumbs. Sometimes I see a cool repo, but I've already starred it, so it means I'd seen it.
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Timeline cleanse: This baby elephant messing around with an on air reporter is totally adorbs 🥰
(h/t Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)
I see Mastodon saying DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted. Seems like Mastodon might be a great way to bootstrap PKI use for mortals. I haven't searched to see if anyone's working on that, but it would be nice.
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And async traits are the first thing Nike Matsakis talks about in his latest blog post looking at possible goals for Rust 2024. https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/09/22/rust-2024-the-year-of-everywhere/
Interesting read here, and it's neither a hot take nor anti-Rust nor anti-Go. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-i-switched-from-rust-to-go-on-the-backend-28bda21dbee9