[08:43] schestowitz[08:43] schestowitzSadly, I bring word that Pop!_OS 22.10 is not going to be released this autumn heck, its not even in development.
[08:43] schestowitzSystem76s software engineers want to take the time and effort prepping the next release would take and instead plough it in constructing their home-grown, Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment.
[08:43] schestowitzConfirming the news is Pop!_OS developer Micheal Murphy. In a Reddit comment he explains: We are going to focus our development time onto the Rust implementation of COSMIC instead of 22.10.
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[08:46] schestowitz[08:46] schestowitzWe are proud to announce the fifteenth edition of the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) conference on ethical technology and user freedom, which will be held in spring 2023, both online and in Boston (exact venue TBD). In these fifteen years, LibrePlanet has always been a community that brings together concerned users of all varieties to carve out the direction of software freedom for today as well as for [08:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | LibrePlanet 2023: Let's chart the course together! Submit your session by November 2 Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [08:46] schestowitz years to come. The call for sessions is now open and will close on November 2, 2022. Potential talks should examine free software through the lens of the theme "Charting the Course."
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[08:47] schestowitz[08:47] schestowitzA lot of system design is about thinking of the nature of the domains we encounter. And only later, once we understand them, encoding this understanding in a way that machines can verify it.
[08:47] schestowitzI often find async Rust to be misunderstood. Conversations around "why async" often focus on performance 1 - a topic which is highly dependent on workloads, and results with people wholly talking past each other. While performance is not a bad reason to choose async Rust, we often we only notice performance when we experience a lack of it. So I want to instead on which features async Rust provides which [08:47] schestowitz aren't present in non-async Rust. Though we'll talk a bit about performance too at the end of this post.
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[08:48] schestowitz[08:48] schestowitzThe most notable new feature is the rewritten command substitution parsing code, which calls the bison parser recursively. This replaces the ad-hoc parsing used in previous versions, and allows better syntax checking and catches syntax errors much earlier. The shell attempts to do a much better job of parsing and expanding array subscripts only once; this has visible effects in the `unset' builtin, [08:48] schestowitz word expansions, conditional commands, and other builtins that can assign variable values as a side effect.
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