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  • solrize@lemmy.mltoRust Programming@lemmy.mlAnnouncing unrar v0.5.0
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    1 year ago

    Nice, I will try to take a look at this. Unrar sounds like a good candidate for RIIR, because of all the weird bugs that the C implementations have had–same for things like info-zip and gzip.

    I know of a version of zip compression written in Ada and it sounds much more trustworthy than the C version. Speed is about the same too. I don’t understand why it doesn’t get more use, other than laziness.


  • This seems like unnecessary fragmentation. Reddit became huge because it gave people interested in a topic a one-stop place to discuss their topic. Putting the interested people together gave a network effect that attracted even more participants.

    Creating new discussion venues (subreddits, usenet groups) is generally only worthwhile if an existing venue gets too crowded or cluttered to discuss a niche topic, or the niche topic becomes big enough that the existing venue is happier if the niche splits off. Example: there is a general programming forum, Rust gets invented and people talk about it there, then Rust becomes a big enough topic that a Rust forum is warranted.

    I’m a not-even-newbie to Rust but I’d be happier if the lemmy.ml and lemmyrs.org Rust forums somehow got merged. Because of federation, I’m basically indifferent to which Lemmy instance actually hosts it.