Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Fireship" channel.

Zig is the first language that I have seen in decades that has hope for being a true successor to C, both technically and in spirit. C is and has been my most beloved language to use, but Zig is looking to be sooooo good. It really does seem to have pulled off being C without the legacy crud and hidden gotchas. My biggest fear for it, and have seen with other projects, is that the developers won't know when to stop adding features (yes, this is a direct insult to C++ and ready to be towards Rust). Go has its own purpose and priorities, but this is one area that they have pulled off perfectly: anyone with programming experience can learn the language enough to be halfway-competent with it in an afternoon. Once the addition of async is complete and part of the the stable language spec, I hope development slows down on feature additions, and goes the route of "quality over quantity".
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...and here I am with entire testing suites for personal hobby projects.
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Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
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For me: Micro for light-editing, config files, small scripts. VS Code for larger scripts and mix-language projects (i.e. writing C extensions for Ruby) The suitable JetBrains IDE for large projects and enterprise languages like Rider for C# or IntelliJ for Java (though rarely). Years ago when I was still using Windows, I was a Visual Studio fan, but would never use it again, even if using Windows, and would definitely stick with a JetBrains product. EDIT: Although this video is nearly a year old, I had tried Fleet on early-access, and was unimpressed by it personally. It might have its niche uses, but overall, it seems like there is always a better tool to use instead.
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I gave it a try for a few weeks, really didn't see the appeal of it over Linux. The cons outweighed the pros IMHO, though I would use it before switching to Windows or Mac. More adoption and software support would be huge win, but this is the classic chicken/egg problem.
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The Mozilla Corporation will have to divert more money to the "non-profit" Mozilla Foundation and not pocket as much. What a shame....
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C will never die. Tons of "low-level" languages have come and gone over the years with the goal of being a C alternative, and most have faded into obscurity. The base libraries that pretty much everything is built atop relies on C in one way or another, and it is just too much to "rewrite it in Rust" or whatever other "hot" language is stylish to use that year.
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@Ripcraze The"with data collection" was the more important, and I am assuming, the primary information trying to be conveyed. Commercial use or not is irrelevant for most people, employers either pay the bill or JetBrains gives out free licenses to any promising project that asks, so few independent people are paying for it for the purpose of hobby-coding.
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@alvarohigino I don't know, I personally cannot name any remotely popular language that has grown near as slow. C17 didn't add any language features. C11 was pretty much just threads. After that we have to go back to C99, which was probably the biggest change in recent history, with revolutionary concepts like stdint.h, booleans, and inline comments. If memory serves it also added variodic/inline functions at that point, which is a rather large change for a language like C, though would only bump a minor revision in any other. Before that was the Lord's version: Holy C89, so that is over 3 decades where I can list 90% of the of "bloat" in a brief YT comment from memory. Tooling has increased by leaps and bounds, but that isn't the language, so not really a fair metric.
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They are equally bad. Mozilla Foundation/Corporation is just as bad as Google, they simply don't have as much power to wield effectively, but not from lack of trying.
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I don't prefer Python, but I support any new framework that is not JS just out of spite for JS and the horrors it has committed upon the programming world.
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I know this comment it a year old, but for others: You will literally learn Lua naturally without even trying just by taking the time to configure neovim how you like it. Assuming you have some very minimal programming experience in any language, you can just dive in, you will figure it out as you go without once ever reading the Lua docs.
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@dafunkmonster Both a razor blade and a sword can be equally sharp. One can do more damage. It is either disingenuous or extremely sad if you don't understand this.
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Years of experience have taught me that if I am writing a bash script and find myself creating arrays and digging into obscure syntax, then I am using the wrong tool for the job. There is something to be said for the "challenge" of doing something complicated in pure bash (or sh), but there is rarely a legitimate reason to be doing so when far more capable tools usually exist on the same system.
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I have some personal conventions that I follow: Any variable that is exported and intended to be read elsewhere is all caps, and usually "configuration" variables at the top of a script. I do use lowercase for "local" variables that are used only within the script itself.
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@Ripcraze Many people feel strongly about their privacy, if even only out of principal, and are not interested in giving it up for the sake of using an IDE. Your opinion may differ, but it would be silly to dismiss the fact that others do, and it is a huge industry and focus of many software companies.
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@rcdmrl KVM/QEMU is not slower, it is bare-metal, simply allowing you to actually dual-boot, as in two systems booted simultaneously. The downside is you need a system with two graphics chips (e.g. integrated Intel and discrete NVIDIA GPU, etc), otherwise you have to "switch" them, which is not without problems. You can literally add an entry to your boot loader for the KVM installed OS, and boot it normally if you so wanted to, or boot an OS installed on another partition without shutting down Linux.
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Ruby was the first language I learned (RPG Maker XP days), and what got me started into programming. I rarely use it nowadays aside from personal scripts on my own machine and extending it with C (not really "Ruby" programming), but I will always have a soft spot for it. Ruby blocks as first-class citizen has no equal in other languages, at least near as elegantly or simple to use.
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No more resetting the trial period every month!
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JS was a mistake. There is no combination of words that will make me question otherwise. The only thing worse than JS are JS developers who don't understand why.
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I always --force to assert my dominance over my coworkers.
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Sounds like a language designed by Devin.
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I haven't seen an /sbin directory in ages, though I assume that is going to depend on the family of distribution (i.e. Arch/Debian/RHEL/etc -based).
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@mollthecoder There is nothing non-profit about Mozilla. They simply separated their Corporation and Foundation for tax reasons and the ability to market themselves as "non-profit". They are obviously small compared to Google, but they are a large corporation making money the same way that Google does, simply less successful at it.
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Indeed, "love/hate" is a great way to describe it. I doubt there many people who even fully understand the entirety of the API, it is is akin to Xorg in that regard. In my experience, it is best just to focus in on trying to accomplish the specific task you need, it is too easy to get lost in the weeds unless you need to know it for your job, etc.
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I traveled the "I'm gonna make my own language!" path before. Even with a simple language design and tools like LLVM to abstract the worst of it away, it is still not for the light of heart.
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Modern web development is so gross; the entire stack from top-to-bottom. It is all just one huge conglomerate of crappy technologies being built upon other crappy technologies in an effort to "fix" the one prior to it. Then someone else comes along and builds a technology on top of that. We are now at the point where the front-end people aren't even learning the language anymore, but just how to use a small subset of it within some "framework", which they have no idea how that actually works.
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alias btw=''neofetch'
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Totally agree, I dumped nano within minutes of discovering micro. It is the perfect tool for small scripts and editing config files, and better than nano in every way.
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@aaRept Censorship, privacy violations, a dishonest "non-profit" model between Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, so that they pretend to be a non-proft, when they are anything but (let's not forget whom Google was paying in this scheme btw). As is said, its the same distasteful practices as Google, just on a smaller scale because they are a smaller company. Neither of these organizations have clean hands, so it is silly to use this as a determining factor when deciding between the Firefox/Chrome(-based) browser. There is no "principled" choice here, it is only "pick your poison".
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@SergTTL Double-digit IQ if you don't understand. Behaving the exact same way, but being weaker and incapable of doing it as well does make something good. It is equally bad, just not as effective at doing it. A toy poodle can be equally as aggressive as rabid pit bull. Not sure which part of this concept is giving you difficulties, being weaker doesn't make it less aggressive. The point being that there is no "principled" reason to choose one over the other, use whatever you want, it is pick your poison, but let's not pretend there is any virtue in either of them.
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@ZeerakImran As I stated, I understand that Google is the "worst" offender. The point is that switching for philosophical/ideological reasons is absurd, as they are the same. You are comparing who was worse: Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy, where they can be equally bad, regardless of whoever has a "higher count".
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 @pieterrossouw8596 It is essentially Google with a slightly different algorithm on how results are ordered, they do not have their own index like others such as Yandex, Brave Search, etc.
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Two years later, and HTMX is showing how you really don't need JS, let alone a huge framework.
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