Waqar

C++, Qt, KDE/Kate Developer, @QOwnNotes

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

I just started sponsoring KDE for $5/mo, everyone should do the same for software they use and love, it may not be much for you but if everyone did the same they'd be drowning in money.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

Don’t be fooled by the wave of states “recognizing Palestine.” This is not liberation, it’s a move meant to neutralize our struggle. Meanwhile, Gaza is in ruins, countless killed, land annexed in the West Bank. Symbolic recognition while Palestine is erased in real time.

[Bitwarden @Bitwarden]

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[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@IgorJMichalak @0xtimsb rxi also wrote a nice little editor in c/lua. (Which I ported to odin for fun)

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@Adev @basit_ayantunde Is there anything wrong with reimplementing? Allocation strategy is one of many reasons one might want to reimplement and thats fine imo

[Filip Jerzy Pizło @filpizlo]

I'm making a memory-safe implementation of C/C++. It's called Fil-C. Currently working on making it fanatically compatible with C and C++ so that lots of programs can be made memory-safe with zero or minimal changes.

Learn more here: https://t.co/P00qxQ2xI0

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@rfleury @Mathieu_Ta Yeah, it has a lot of good ideas and is better than any electron app in many ways

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@rfleury @Mathieu_Ta It does, on my pc. I just have 16G ram and ryzen 7 4700U cpu with a HDD. vscode starts beating it consistently as the project size gets bigger.

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@Mathieu_Ta @16footcatgirl I work on the Kate text editor and I try to make it fast and featureful. I would suggest giving it a try if you have time.

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@rfleury @Mathieu_Ta Its not changing the problem. Its just making the problem big/small. If it takes longer than for e.g vscode to open a 300 files project, then its objectively worse than vscode in this regard.

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@rfleury @Mathieu_Ta @16footcatgirl Reasonable depends on a lot of factors like what hardware you are running it on. If it doesn't work when the problem actually gets harder then its not really a 'fast' or 'good' software.

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@rfleury @Mathieu_Ta @16footcatgirl 4coder is awful if you try to open any medium/big projects in it. With bigger projects it just ooms, I am surprised people say its good.

[Tzvetan Mikov @tmikov]

https://t.co/iQ0kSMH3gr

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

So today has been an amazing day for Odin. First the Odin Book, new Odin release, and now Odin is on Compiler Explorer (Godbolt)!

SUCH A GOOD DAY!!!

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@thorstenball Interesting stuff. I landed some optimizations for Kate text editor for similar reasons, row/col <-> offset conversion. It would be interesting to measure how both editors perform in large editing ops using multi cursors.

[ily⚡️ @0xIlyy]

> paid 60k/year, worked at his company for 25 years
> IDE takes 30 minutes to open
> compiles for 2 hours just to segfault
> std::vector<int>::iterator::pointer::element_type
> just one more typedef bro
> 60 lines stacktrace for a missing ";"
> debug build: 4GB

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@simplex_fx @GustavSterbrant perf + hotspot gui. Disassembly view shows slow parts in code. Doesn't have instrumentation though

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@tsoding Thats how https://t.co/qngOoRCqKe works

[Waqar @WaqrAhmd]

@Cephi_sui @LinaAsahi @__phantomderp Thats kind of the point of kate, not an IDE. You can disable lsp and other plugins. But yeah, maybe its not for everyone. To be clear, I was looking for feedback to improve things, thanks for your response :)