Gopls using 138 threads and 7.3GB memory, if only you knew how bad things really are.
Feels like every possible force in the universe is simultaneously making a concerted effort to make it as unbearable as possible to write software. Maybe Samuel Altman and the cattle at Microsoft won.
My favorite genre of tweets is C++ devs losing their minds over consteval and constexpr, just look at what they need to do to mimic a fraction of the power of comptime in Zig!
There are only three hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and get it fucking working on Windows.
Software was a mistake, it should never have been used for anything consumer facing. It should have been a purely scientific endeavour.
Ghostty is now a non-profit project, fiscally sponsored by Hack Club.
https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit I view terminals as critical infrastructure that should be stewarded by a mission-driven, non-commercial entity that prioritizes public benefit over profit. Ghostty is now that.
Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
Mitchell HashimotoIn this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
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