Daily Shaarli

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September 16, 2023

Should I Rust or should I go?
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Keep the downsides in mind. Rust has an ecological niche, but it's not that big.

B612 – The font family

Interesting free font. Made for aeronautics, but brings interesting properties which might be useful in other contexts as well. Created around Toulouse and my old University too!

This month in Servo: upcoming events, new browser UI, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

Nice to see this effort keeps bearing fruits. This is a very needed engine to avoid a monoculture.

1 Trick to Finish Your Next Talk in Style - David Nihill
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Interesting trick indeed. I'll try this when I get the chance. Clearly this avoids the underwhelming atmosphere closing after most Q&A session.

Java 21 makes me actually like Java again - WSCP's blog

This is definitely a big deal for the Java type system and its ergonomics.

Unity’s New Pricing: A Wake-up Call on the Importance of Open Source in Gaming – Ramatak Inc.
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Unsurprisingly after people massively converged to two main closed source engines for their games, they start to be massively screwed over. Maybe it's time for them to finally turn to Free Software alternatives?