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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to c/rust@lemmy.ml

In practical perspectives, I'm mostly concerned about computer resources usage; I have computer resources constraints. So using Rust would benefit on that. But it is for a Web application backend. So, is it worth it having to learn Rust + Tokio + Axum, ... in this specific situation? Also, that this is mostly for initially prototyping an application. Also considering if I add developers in the future, they would most likely not be familiar with Rust, but with more popular frameworks such as Node.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I quoted your comment in the original post if you're ok this, thanks for your comment

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Models could be run offline and/or free, e.g. gpt4all, starhugger for emacs, huggingchat... Also, this is a fast-pace changing industry, we can only try and adapt using such tools at our disposal. You might use a tool or service that uses AI and don't even notice it.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 1 points 11 months ago

Hahahah actually this in conjunction with Lex's talks/interviews is probably what got me thinking more about all this. Masterpiece anyway

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 0 points 11 months ago

Maybe they will pay a little fine---and you won't be getting the money either---while their profits skyrocket. It's always like this, so I don't even bother.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 2 points 11 months ago

I also think this is the way. Glad to know I am not alone. Thank you!

PS: I have a pretty nice and modularized GNU Emacs config, but it's to me just as Lex we are missing a ton by constraining only on GNU Emacs.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 3 points 11 months ago

Guess I'll be using GNU Emacs, VSCode, Helix, Eclipse hsha

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm actually sad since acnkowledging that as I invested too much in GNU Emacs

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

Seems like with all AI-enabling and just works out of the box experiences with VSCode and alike, makes GNU Emacs absolete. I'm aware of AI packages for GNU Emacs, but don't think is worth the investiement so much; I would mostly save it for org mode, TUI, and some other few packages. But for programming, it doesn't seem lile worth the investment, and use VSCode instead.


Certainly knowing things will always be valuable - but the effect of assistants and LLMs may be to change what it is valuable to know by devaluing a great heap of current generation’s programmers’s stock and trade.

As an addenda: by value in the above I mean “instrumental value” or more specifically, valuable to the rich who want to exploit the skills of others to become yet richer. There is always intrinsic value to knowing for the people who love to know.


fomosapien@emacs.ch, https://emacs.ch/users/fomosapien/statuses/111264462444461233

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 1 points 11 months ago

Just do it like me and listen to nature sounds like gentle rain.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 3 points 11 months ago

Not really... Many are just devs used to say Windows who happened to get to work in a linux environment.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 3 points 11 months ago

Nix files are Nix [function] expressions to declare and set your system; there are many options you can set for example. You just need to learn a few chapters of https://nixcloud.io/tour/ and https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/, also modularization using imports.

For user/de configuration, you can either do the usual way or use home-manager.

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Basically all that. The unfinished part IMO is mostly for use in developer use cases, and that some ecosystems like JVM are not as well supported.

Can run yes, given that you have to spend some time learning Nix and NixOS specifics. I do that myself.

You either package the software if it is easy to do so—take a look a at nix-init which eases the process—or use Flatpack, containers, steam-run...

[-] nyl@lemmy.opensupply.space 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It all began with Nix software build system and package manager; they needee a way to build, compile software in a reproducible way. That is, if it builds on my machine, it should build on yours too given some constraints. Then they build a whole package repository for such sofware or package definitions, Nixpkgs, that can be build or retrieved using Nix package manager. Nixpkgs grew to be a repository for enabling runnig an GNU Linux OS on it: NixOS. It is declarative in the sense you write what it should contain like packages and behaves like system services. For example, see https://git.sr.ht/~misterio/nix-config.

Atomic in the sense that when you want to change system's configuration or state, everything should suceed in that update, otherwise fails; it is everything or nothing. This enables storing previous and current system revisions, so can rollback to previous state.

Nix plus things like flakes, nix shell, enables a build inviroment akin to containers, but much better, correct, and flexible.

Haskell is just an ecossytem Nixpkgs support.

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