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Is it worth it using Rust+Axum for backend instead of Node.js? In which situations would you do so?

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.

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Is GNU Emacs still worth it?
  • 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.

  • Is GNU Emacs still worth it?
  • I’ve done some small extension development for vscode and hated it

    I respect your argument

    Commercial arguments are a thing, but a bit reductive no?

    I meant you're putting into practice a language/tech that has real and great demand than one that has little to none outside the specific domain of a text editor

  • Is GNU Emacs still worth it?
  • Why so? Do you work with lisp languages? I've been recently fiding learning [e]lisp a con since it's basically a domain specific language. Only Clojure has a bit of commercial opportunities, but even then it's better to learn JavaScript/TypeScript for its greater use cases. Also, if I wanted to play with functional programming I'd go Haskell, Lean, or even Shen.

  • Is GNU Emacs still worth it?
  • 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.

  • Is GNU Emacs still worth it?

    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.

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    > 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

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    Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?
  • 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.

  • Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?
  • 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...

  • Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?
  • 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.

  • Resources to learn about history of linux
  • GNU has interviews and more clarifying all the way back to MIT AI lab, lisp machines the printers proprietary code triggering free software movement, etc.

    Linux just happened because GNU hand't developed a proper kernel yet; Linus wrote that himself on an mail to the Linux Kernel or Minix mailing list IIRC.

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