Alexey @yyp@fosstodon.org

To people here cancelling sourcehut: do you know any alternatives that are not Github clones? :P

I'm happy to stay on Sourcehut not doing those distractions

WAIT WHAT? Reactions on releases? Github is becoming the true Facebook of coding.

Demo: https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow/releases/tag/1.0.41

#github

Go(lang) being made by Google doesn't mean it's bad

Just switched my login shell to busybox ash, let's see how it goes

If it works, it works

Random idea: what if we take C parser from cproc, extend it to store comments and then emit Man pages/Markdown/anything else from some more-or-less standard style of documentation. 🤔

🎉 A pre-release of ctest, my smol C unit testing library. Feel free to try it and give feedback!

https://sr.ht/~yerinalexey/ctest

Coming soon...

One thing that I seem to do more often is doing a detailed write-up in the commit message for a pretty simple change. This way sometimes the description outweighs the action.

I'm not against having a good and descriptive history and all that, but this still feels a bit strange.

OBS occasionally kills my CPU...

I like C

Finally got string trim to work: https://paste.sr.ht/~yerinalexey/57acd40f094337ca6be81084c0cf74add7ebf972

Firefox is just so big and so bad

And why should strings be NUL-terminated in the first place? Wouldn't it be much better to have something like this instead:

struct string {
char *data;
size_t len;
}

Pros:
* Getting the length is O(1)
* Easily converted to/from classic "strings"

Cons:
* Can't be built-in in C (but it mostly is in other languages!)

C strings (oh sorry, pointers to char) are a pain...

I need to remove all whitespace from beginning and end of a line, and I couldn't get it working. Simple solution would be just put a NUL byte for all spaces, and then just advance the pointer in-place.

I don't like this way of trashing the memory, and also you would still need to have the old pointer in case you need to free() it.

It just becomes a huge mess, maybe that's now C is supposed to be used. But, are you fine 0'ing useful memory?