Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Memory Safe Languages DO NOT PREVENT MEMORY LEAKS" video.

  1. A theme I've found—really since Alpha 1—is that each new COSMIC release is less stable, with more serious issues, while being more "feature complete." Glad to know it's not just me. Also: the new problems in Alpha 5 are just strange: - Minecraft (and only Minecraft?) will minimize itself when in full-screen and I move the cursor to my second display (to, say, start OBS). - Steam fully seizes my computer in that "not-a-Kernel Panic" state that Brodie covered a few Alphas ago.
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  2. I'm primarily a Python programmer and, aside from some Arduino projects, haven't touched C since grad school. So yeah, I naïvely thought for a long time that "memory safe" meant that the linters were checking that memory was properly being freed.
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  3.  @mmstick  Thanks for the response. I'll look into that (I'm indeed using an AMD card on Arch).
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  4. ​ @mmstick Thanks! Switching to RADV and adding that env var to my /etc/profile did the trick to stop the not-kernel-panics.
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  5. I honestly have no concept of whether that's a lot, lol.
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  6. One additional follow-up: the Minecraft issue is a well-known issue with Minecraft that's been marked as "works as intended" by the developers. The fact that this didn't happen on other DEs / older Alphas was the "bug," and the solution is to employ any of a number of mods that add a "borderless windowed" mode to the game.
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