I feel like we’re talking past each other. My impression was that 30% towards your living situation is a pretty decent target; what would you expect the percentage to be?

Okay, what I meant was, is rent taking 30% really indicative of a low standard of living?

Rent eating 30-40% of your income is extremely normal, isn’t it? Or is that only true in the US (where it has recently become much more than that for many people)?

Lots of acronyms no longer stand for anything due to losing their original associations. LLVM, AT&T, SAT (the test, not the programming problem), etc.

You don’t have to imagine it; you can browse the Linux Kernel mailing list!

That’s called a mailing list

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TypeScript is a language, and traditionally languages are considered separate from their implementations. When I first saw the headline I hoped maybe it meant a non-JS runtime for compiled TS, and I’m well aware of the difference. Yes, that would be a much larger undertaking than porting the compiler to a new language, but the headline doesn’t indicate how large a project this is, and Microsoft certainly has the resources to write a new backend (even a native-code one) for the TS compiler.

They did consider making environment-manipulation functions atomic; the problem is that there’s simply no way to guarantee that everything that can manipulate your process’s environment is actually beholden to whatever atomic interface Rust provides. I could be misremembering, but I think there was even some discussion with glibc maintainers about whether this could be made safe, and the answer was basically “haha no.”

There is nothing specific in the rust port that makes fish more available for servers or LTS distros.

Being written in Rust does improve availability, because by default Rust statically links against everything except libc, and you can opt out of that if necessary. So there is inherently no need to build separate dependency packages for each distro, unless you use a Rust crate that specifically links to a C or C++ library.

It’s relevant because there are still platforms that don’t have actual Bash (e.g. containers using Busybox).

sh is not just a symlink: when invoked using the symlink, the target binary must run in POSIX compliant mode. So it’s effectively a sub-dialect.

Amber compiles to a language, not to a binary. So “why doesn’t it compile to sh” is a perfectly reasonable question, and refers to the POSIX shell dialect, not to the /bin/sh symlink itself.