Wow, didn't notice at first! But devRant is fast again! After all those weeks. I really thought we were doomed now. Still, i did see lesser activity during the slow period, hope it didn't cost some members. Wouldn't be weird. I expect to end up alone here around 2050. Switched to apple, because Lensflare still updates his app. Still not accepting that his app became the official one. In 2050, dfox will have his pension maybe and devRant will be actively maintained again! Or he gives it to his grand kids.

What programming feels like:
https://youtube.com/watch/...

huh figured AI was the best with JavaScript but it's been pretty subpar

it can't seem to figure out how to glue various libraries together. also keeps giving me outdated syntaxes

maybe I actually have to read the electron docs myself I guess... so lazy

Been working on my Rust isspam version and now it's looking like it should again :P

Rust back on top, baby (☞⌐▀͡ ͜ʖ͡▀ )☞

***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.836021900177002
Time Rust: 0.12235116958618164
Time CPP: 0.39263033866882324
Time Borded CPP: 0.6284189224243164
Time Jest Rust: 0.27682042121887207
***end benchmark***

ColdFusion is a bag full of pure, manure-reeking stupidity.
For example, some functions, like arrayIsDefined, return YES or NO - instead of true or false. I'm not kidding. Adobe == fucking lamers ? YES : NO. Definitely YES.

Just saved my old google play DEV account by publishing a small app - developed withing a few hours... AI is really helping us all.

Its now the time to push our main product....

When Tech Fails… Again!
You know that moment when your phone freezes mid-task, your favorite app crashes for the fifth time today, and every update promises “better performance” but somehow makes things worse? Yeah, I’m living it. It’s 2025, and we’re still struggling with basic tech reliability. From glitchy apps to devices that overheat while doing the simplest things, it feels like tech is working against us instead of for us!

If you’re as tired of this as I am, check out Upcoming Web.
for tips, app recommendations, and insights that actually make tech easier to deal with. Honestly, it’s about time we get devices that respect our time, not just our wallets!

"AI can code" is like "my dog can play piano". Yes, I have proof, look it's hitting the keys and we can hear a sound. Dogs can play piano. AI can code.

Well my 9950X3D arrived, now I can load all of the isspam data into the CPU, good luck @12bitfloat

It's still so amusing to me the amount of projects that are posted on /r/react, /r/angular or /r/sideprojects that are blatantly AI written and others that have their LLM API key exposed.

Final benchmark for now. I think I've invested (wasted :P) enough time optimizing this

Finally got it below 100 ms on my system:

***benchmarking***
Time C: 0.82965087890625
[src/main.rs:407:2] num_threads = 24
[src/main.rs:408:2] num_cores = 24
Time Rust: 0.09551429748535156
Time CPP: 0.4009711742401123
Time Borded CPP: 0.6333107948303223
Time Jest Rust: 0.28380441665649414
***end benchmark***

And ignore the two debug prints. For some god forsaken reason, removing them makes it slower by like 5% for..... reasons..... idk lol

Missed some of you. A lot of you really.

Anything exciting happen while I was gone?

I heard some of you formed a mob, dragged a spammer out behind the wood shed and beat em bloody.

Sad to say I missed that.

I'm currently eeking by financially, but got my plans for the fall winter and spring. Gym membership, rock climbing, prepping for a 5k. Weathers perfect for all of it.

I'm in a competition right now for some serious prize money and in the lead.

Enough to start that AI lab and finish my game.

Also, not everything is sunshine and roses. I sleep 3-6 hours a night average, (5-6 if I'm lucky), and horrible mood swings, with or without sleep. And isolation, damn the isolation is terrible, but my schedule is so hectic I basically have no room for any real-world contacts. I can barely make time for myself, let alone my family.

But I'm still writing poetry and music at least, and got my eye on some land for a cabin or other uses like for an office.

Whats going good/bad in your life?

I haven't heard from so many of you for so long.

It's amazing just how bad Visual Studio/.NET is .. and the way this shop does stuff.

I was just copying existing projects and renaming/modifying everything for new tasks, but this time I tried to create a new project from scratch. No matter what I get:

Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RequiredMemberAttribute' from assembly 'NJsonSchema, Version=11.3.2.0, Culture=neutral

Everything has the right .NET framework. Dependencies look mostly identical to other projects. No one in the work chat has seen it before. I'm about to move this project to a tmp dir, copy and existing project, search and replace all the name, empty it out and copy my source into it. What you want to bet it will "just work."

I hate everything about Windows/.NET .. I'm glad I have a job again, but .NET is just so fucking painful. How has Visual Studio remained this bad for this many decades? I swear VS 2022 is just like VS6 with a fucking dark theme.

This is a test

Am I the only one for whom DR doesn’t load half of the time?

What’s your take on building a community-led devRant overhaul?

Looks like @dfox and @trogus aren’t maintaining this anymore and despite my efforts, I haven’t heard back from them.

Maybe an open-source devRant reboot without the pitfalls of existing platforms would be welcomed? Let me know and let’s band together to make it happen if at all.

@12bitfloat, come back to snek, i did not hear the sounds. Have sound off. As you've seen, cool stuff is under development by members there!

Programmers of today have replaced customly designed algorithms with off-the-shelf heuristics. They wander through packages and libraries and end up making something that is in no way viable to run in production.
(Paraphrasing Tesla)

Seriously, how many dependencies do a data science stack for some internal process needs? It would be fine of it was just an image compilation issue, but every other library nowadays needs a fucking subscription.
It makes sense when vendors want to bill you for using their neat library. It takes a lot of effort to develop those things.
But you better deliver something great and have a fucking good reason to make it an API instead of a self hosted or locally installed library.
Because it doesn't matter how much you've optimized your hardware to run your library, the network latency makes it much more expensive (in processor time alone!) to call an API and await a gRPC response. Oh, I can do async? No shit, Sherlock. Your fucking server cannot handle my load. Not without significant investment on a dedicated host and then we're back to square one.
Shit, its cheaper to run the thing on my side. "Oh, you can do self-hosted! We just need to make sure we have our digital rights management bloatware ruining the performance of everything!"

Just to make things worse, every other data science library nowadays is just a fucking distilled LLM. Those pieces of crap manage to be more unreliable than politicians.

Fuuuuck, the world is burning already and we're pouring fuel all over it with those fucking get-rich-quick "advanced API tools". Can't we just hire talented people instead of licensing a dozen vendors? But noooooo, everybody gotta be their own fucking boss because companies hate when their employees are happy and sabotage it all with RTO mandates.

Fuck, I need a drink. The enshittyfication has come for us, at last. May our end be quick as `sudo shutdown 0`.

We have a no AI use policy at the company.

I had a contract developer added onto my team. I start to see AI generated comments in his code all the time. Point out that the code being contributed is def AI nonsense. I brought it up with my boss which reports to the CTO. Response: “As long as he doesn’t get caught I guess.”

He did get caught. This is me catching him and telling you.

Maybe some good news?

https://finalroundai.com/blog/...