ethin

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I'm a computer science graduate with experience in embedded systems seeking to get a career in software engineering. In my free time I love learning all kinds of things, working on complex projects in various programming languages such as C++ and Rust, etc.
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Show threadethin2d ago

I would happily switch to it in a heartbeat if it was a lot more well-documented and if it supported even half of what CMake does.

As an example of what I mean, say I want to link to the FMOD library (or any library I legally can't redistribute as an SDK). Or I want to enable automatic detection on Windows where I know the library/SDK is an installer package. My solution, in CMake, is to just ask the registry. In XMake I still can't figure out how to pull this off. I know that's pretty niche, but still.

The documentation gap is the biggest hurtle. A lot of the functions/ways of doing things are poorly documented, if they are at all. Including a CMake library that isn't in any of the package managers for example. It also has some weird quirks: automatic/magic scoping (which is NOT a bonus) along with a hack "import" function instead of using native require.

All of this said, it does work well when it does work. Especially with modules.

ethinOct 14

Is this really something new? If memory serves, Telegram has had it's own crypto since the beginning, and I don't remember anything about it ever being audited by... Well, anybody?

Granted, I don't know how MTProto actually works all that well, but IMO Telegram should've just used Noise or something. Would've saved them a lot of trouble. Although that doesn't really resolve the underlying problem that people think Telegram is secure when it's not (i.e., you have to explicitly enable E2EE and it's off by default), at least last time I checked. I haven't used telegram in years so my knowledge might be out of date though.