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Rust’s quest for world domination was never destined to happen overnight, so Rust needs to be able to interoperate with the existing world just as easily as it talks to itself. I think I've heard this one before
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Sadly, the story is quite bad for Rust on Windows. It requires MinGW, fails to link properly to libraries created with MSVC and the package manager (Cargo) keeps dragging in FFI packages without regard to platform - frequently failing to work on Windows.
I had a lot of hope for Rust, but it seems like we'll have to wait for at least V2 for the Windows development story to be anything but a massive pain.
The dependency on MinGW or similar is a particular pain point for me, as my experience is that many open source libraries are a nightmare to get running properly.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
modified 28-Apr-15 4:15am.
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For Microsoft, 2015 is a year of adjustment. While the software giant focuses its efforts across multiple platforms, Windows is gearing up for big changes. I'm just wondering if there are any surprises left
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They're going to end that whole ".net" experiment that they've been doing, and go back to their roots. Visual Basic 7, baby!
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They're gonna bring back DOS!
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They are going to develop software that plays nice with others.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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This summer: if you want to sell off your patents, Google is ready to buy. News from next year: Google sues everyone with their new patent collection
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"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
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Space geeks are freaking out because NASA may have accidentally discovered a warp field, an avenue down which spaceships can travel faster than the speed of light – something that, to date, has only existed in science fiction. I'll believe it when the Vulcans show up.
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I sure hope this works out! It would be SO FREAKING AWESOME!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Err no.
I'll file that one with the "successful cold-fusion devices" that have been touted regularly.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: travel faster than the speed of light
Ummm... no it isn't.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Ummm... no it isn't. Don't ask me questions - but apparently the laws of physics would allow it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But the ship wouldn't be travelling FTL; the bubble of space-time around the ship would.
Come on - it's not exactly rocket science!
Oh, wait...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sorry, Richard, I can't hear you over the sound of my warp drive!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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"Rather than exceeding the speed of light ..."
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...within a local reference frame, a spacecraft would traverse distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it, resulting in effective faster-than-light travel.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Despite hitting a record 10 million sales in the second quarter of 2015, Microsoft's phone division is in trouble. Behold: The monopoly in action!
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That's stupid... put 1€ or 1$ more in each phone and change that loose to gain... nobody would notice that small difference when buying expensive devices like a phone.
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Just declare it as a startup, Satya. That's only 12 cents from breaking even.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But that's OK, they don't sell very many.
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According to a new survey by application delivery company OutSystems, 43 percent of respondents rate apps or sites that are mobile friendly as critical to their plans in 2015. Apparently I'm out of focus
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How far down the list is "user friendly" now?
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Have you tried Windows 10 (or OSX 10.10) lately?
TTFN - Kent
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Win 10, yes. It's better than 8, still not as good as 3.
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