I’m guessing he’s talking orchestral music with no lyrics. But “___ is not ideological” or “___ is not political” is exactly the sort of thing people say about stuff that is constantly political. It seems like he was just bought by Russia.

From the guys Wikipedia page:

“In 2024 Moosdorf accepted a part-time honorary professor position at Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow.

The school, financed by Russia’s culture ministry, made headlines just days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, when a staff member performed a concert wearing a black sweatshirt with the letter “Z” on it, which symbolizes support for Moscow’s war.

“Music knows no ideological boundaries,” Moosdorf wrote on Facebook, adding that accepting the professorship is “a sign of understanding.”

“I want to give the young people there [in Russia] the feeling that they are not left behind in Europe,” Moosdorf said. He added that he spent three days in Moscow in September to give an inaugural lecture and plans to go back a few days every quarter to teach chamber music”

Seems like a reeeaaal nice guy huh /s

Have you tried the Rust book? I learned via that and it’s great.

I think that’s quite harsh. As I said, I know it’s not what OP asked and it was just a suggestion. I’m just adding it as an option. Perhaps someone else reading the thread will find it useful, if not OP (who I don’t think you should speak for).

OP mentioned they want native speed and were struggling with badly documented libraries. I feel like it was appropriate to at least mention Rust, considering those two things. Since when is widening a discussion slightly considered bad? You don’t have to reply to my comment either, if my comment does not seem interesting to you. Let alone downvote it. You can just leave it alone, it doesn’t hurt anyone.

Not that cool maybe but I once played a lot of Pathfinder (1st edition). I made a website with a detailed database of all the items in Pathfinder with very specific filters and also including a random item generator. You can try it out here:

https://sortekanin.com/collection/items/

I know it’s not really what you’re asking, but have you considered learning Rust? In many ways, Rust is more similar to C than C++ and is just as capable. There are quite a few very well documented (as is common in the Rust ecosystem) Rust libraries for GUIs, including efficient native ones or immediate mode ones and such. Just a suggestion.

Anyone got experience with every.org compared to Liberapay? Been pretty happy with liberapay myself, just curious.

Eh rust still has issues in some domains, e.g., when cyclic data is appropriate

This might be but then again I’ve been writing Rust for several years and have yet to actually run into this problem. The borrow checker definitely places certain restrictions on what kind of stuff you can do (for good reasons!). Once you know how it works, your brain starts writing the code in advance to fit how the borrow checker likes it and it becomes second nature and a total non issue.

Of course this is part of the reason Rust has a bit of a learning curve, which is fair. But any good sophisticated tool meant for professionals requires proper training and knowledge.

Eh, as funny as this is, I can’t agree that programming peaked with Java. In fact, much of this is just a rant about JavaScript, not about much else.

VSCode can easily do cross-file renames if you write Rust. Rust is kind of peak programming if you ask me, and it’s modern and still new. I don’t feel programming has peaked yet tbh.

Never meet your heroes. Speaking from very literal experience regarding Stallman.

My somewhat hot take is that design patterns and SOLID are just tools created to overcome the shortcomings of bad OOP languages.

When I use Rust, I don’t really think about design patterns or SOLID or anything like that. Sure, Rust has certain idiomatic patterns that are common in the ecosystem. But most of these patterns are very Rust-specific and come down to syntax rather than semantics. For instance the builder pattern, which is tbh also another tool to overcome one of Rust’s shortcomings (inability to create big structs easily and flexibly).

I think you’re completely correct that these things are dogma (or “circlejerking” if you prefer that term). Just be flexible and open minded in how you approach problems and try to go for the simplest solution that works. KISS and YAGNI are honestly much better principles to go by than SOLID or OOP design patterns.

if you transfer resources to them

I get what you’re saying here and mostly agree, but just want to point out that you are transferring a resource - your labour. So it is a bit more nuanced than this.

I doubt they knowingly sponsored a project based on the developers’ political ideologies

But now they should know right? But the response makes it clear they don’t really care. They want to include everyone in the “big tent”, which clearly runs afoul of the paradox of tolerance. I am not a fan of their response.

I would never use an algorithmic feed for friends and family relations, so that’s simply not relevant. Tbh I don’t use “social media” with friends and family at all, I just use chats with them.

how do you know you’re not missing something important or interesting?

I mean this is just FOMO if you ask me. There always going to be something you’ll miss - it’s impossible to follow everything completely. I find it better to get a condensed view of the most important stuff, and then I can skip most of the rest.

That’s fine, but most people don’t want their feeds like that. I for sure don’t have time to follow literally all posts from the things I follow - I need some sort of filtering mechanism.

This is a strange take on a website that doesn’t show a chronological feed (by default anyway).

The problem is that chronological feeds suck hard when activity levels go above a certain threshold. You’d refresh the page and get an entire new set of posts because since last you refreshed, there were 100000 posts made. Chronological is not feasible in that scenario.

Did you read the post? The author suggests trying out other version control systems too.

As a dane: The social democratic party in Denmark has changed a lot in the last 10-20 years. It used to be much more left-leaning. Nowadays it’s essentially a middle party. They adopted quite a few policies from the right wing (especially on the immigration area), in an attempt to keep the power basically, and it has worked immensely well, in the sense that many, many people have voted for them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025

The idea is that eventually they would stop scraping you cause the data is bad or huge. But it’s a long term thing, it doesn’t help in the moment.