I can’t speak to this exact implementation, but as this is basically Bacon-Rajan cycle collection, it’s not fast, especially when you use it heavily, and especially when you compare it with a dedicated garbage collector.

There are Rc schemes that are about as fast as a dedicated garbage collector, but those are much, much more involved. The most recent and well known (that I know of) is LXR which builds on several different strategies such as Rc Immix

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Why do you care how people use their computers? And how does it have anything to do with your original argument that it takes the fun out of things?

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Or do they just use the output unchecked, which I assume you’d agree is not “awesome”?

I can’t imagine anything I’d care about less as if it’s for their own personal use.

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I’m not saying they’re awesome. I’m agreeing with the grandparent that says they are:

awesome for end users

You can dislike LLMs because they suck the fun out of programming, but some people don’t like programming so it doesn’t make sense to dislike how other people use them to avoid that!

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It’s because to some people (myself included, and I assume a lot of people on this website too) the process of discovery, of learning, of getting stuck, of despairing, of ahas, and of figuring shit out is the most amazing fun imaginable. After a hug from my loved ones, I scarcely know of a better feeling than having solved a hard problem (meaning a problem that was hard for me)! That’s why not!

Okay, and like I said, I do too. The problem is that I don’t like doing that for everything in my life. Some problems are not actually hard, they are simply tedious (to me!).

Honestly the implication that I don’t is kind of insulting!

Of course, everyone gets to pick their own fun. Lots of people seem to like singing and dancing, for instance. I don’t. But I understand enough about fun and inherent drive not to show up at a song retreat and ask “ugh, why do you guys even do this, skilled audio technicians can synthesize a much better voice than that!”

That is simply not what I’m doing at all. I made an app, for my self, that saved me time to get back to solving the difficult problems that I enjoy solving. That doesn’t meant that someone who enjoys working in that domain would not have a fun time working on that problem, it just means I don’t want to wait around for them to get my iPod working

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Man I don’t care I just wanted my iPod to work so I could use my phone less

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You’re being so vague and unspecific here that there’s no point in responding to you because I’d have to imagine what your point actually is.

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Why not? It genuinely is amazing.

I recently got an iPod classic and none of the Linux apps that should have worked for uploading music to it did. So what do I do in this situation? I saw that libgpod exists, so now I have to spend hours learning and writing a program, or give up and install rockbox, or just plain give up?

No, I asked AI to make me a GTK 4 app, and it makes one in ten minutes.

I don’t use AI for personal projects because it sucks the fun out of doing them, but for troubleshooting problems on my computer that I don’t or couldn’t care to learn about, they are a revelation.

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There are so many vulnerabilities that can be present without memory corruption. Not checking for an access control is perfectly memory safe

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