Notices by Jan :rust: :ferris: (janriemer@floss.social)

@marijn Check this out:

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#AIFree #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NotByAI #LLM #LLMs #SALAMI

I've recently thought about if there is not an easier to learn alternative to #LaTeX...and maybe even in #Rust!?

My inner voice: Come on, you are a dreamer!

Well...sometimes dreams come true:

#Typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

https://typst.app/

It is in beta and open source:
https://github.com/typst/typst

#Markup #OpenSource #TypeSetting #PDF #RustLang

@alcinnz Yeah, "bottleneck" is an accurate way to describe it. 👍

Unfortunately, people believe _what they see most often_, not what's necessarily realistic or true. It's a lack of critical thinking, IMO.

AI writing lots of new code without considering context is shown throughout the internet, so it get's a lot of exposure. <sarcasm> But how many documentaries are there again that show a complete day of software engineers? Wait, what do you mean you can't find any!?</sarcasm>

"#AI is going to make software engineers obsolete", is the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my career as a software engineer.

People who say stuff like this have absolutely no idea, what software engineering is about:

- Communication with people to specify requirements
- Considering _A LOT OF CONTEXT_
- 95% reading existing code, 5% writing new code
- Reuse existing code
- Find patterns and relations
- ...

#ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering

#Rust's syntax is actually beautiful!🥰 :ferris:

I think, this needs to be said more often.

#RustLang #Syntax

A new version of csv-diff is out (v0.1.0-beta.2) 🎉

https://lib.rs/crates/csv-diff

This version adds a method, which allows you to sort your diff result by columns (it was already possible to sort by lines).

See the changelog for an example:
https://gitlab.com/janriemer/csv-diff/-/blob/8642a8a7ba14e22d076cee8c3f690c17f41d7528/CHANGELOG.md#010-beta2-19-february-2023

Sorting by columns will soon be integrated into qsv, the #CSV toolkit:
https://github.com/jqnatividad/qsv/issues/714

Thank you @jqnatividad for the idea of this feature! 💚

#Rust #RustLang #CSVDiff #DataScience #qsv #CLI

@alcinnz You might be interested in this:

#Rust vs. #Haskell

https://serokell.io/blog/rust-vs-haskell

Do you remember that we've just talked about this a few days ago?

https://floss.social/@alcinnz/109848301337611600

The blog post has been published _today_.

Is this the Matrix or just coincidence (or have we inspired them)?😄

#RustLang #ComparisonThatMakesSense

@alcinnz @blacklight Oh yes, definitely! Laziness is a really nice feature. ✨

And for those really hot paths, one still has the option to switch to Rust.

In fact, I've just researched how one might do that. There is a cargo plugin that allows you to convert a Rust crate into a cabal library (cabal lib == Haskell lib?).

https://lib.rs/crates/cargo-cabal

I think I should play around with Haskell some more. 🙂

@alcinnz @blacklight Yeah, I look at Haskell with awe from far away (if that makes sense 😄).
I think it's a very elegant language and I believe you when you say "change how you think about programming even more".

Yeah, Haskell vs. Rust comparison makes a lot of sense IMO, because Rust has taken a lot of inspiration from Haskell.

Someone once said:
"If you want your program to be very fast and 99% correct, use Rust. If speed is not that important, but you want to be 100% correct use Haskell"😄

@blacklight 👆 👆 Thank you for sharing.

Go learn #Rust y'all (pun intended)!

It will change how you think about software development!

It's exponential growth isn't going to stop any time soon!

https://floss.social/@janriemer/109474233454928510

#RustLang

@alcinnz Wow, this is so cool seeing #Rust being integrated into more and more tools!

This announcement actually inspired me to create an issue in csv-diff, the fastest CSV diffing library in Rust 🚀 , to evaluate creating a csv diffing extension for sqlite.

Not a priority for now, but maybe someone is willing to help?

https://gitlab.com/janriemer/csv-diff/-/issues/12

Thank you for sharing the article. ❤️

#RustLang #CSV #SQLite

Question to #Rust or #security experts:

Seeing the recent vulnerability in #Cargo and the corresponding fix for it in #RustLang version 1.66.1, I was wondering:

Shouldn't this fix be _backported_ to other versions, too? Am I understanding semver wrong?

So, in my view, there should now also be a version 1.65.1, 1.64.1 and so on.

Otherwise, a lot of older versions (maybe all) stay vulnerable, no?

Post about 1.66.1:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/01/10/Rust-1.66.1.html

#AskFedi #FollowerPower #LazyWeb #RustLang #SemVer