Hate to see Tsoding was using Rust for this. Rust is as far removed from recreational programming than any other language.

It's not rust. It's crust. https://github.com/tsoding/crust

"The Rules of Crust

Every function is unsafe. No references, only pointers. No cargo, build with rustc directly. No std, but libc is allowed. Only Edition 2021. All user structs and enums #[derive(Clone, Copy)]. Everything is pub by default."

I think Rust is quite a recreational language.

The least recreational languages are probably like Java,C#

Idk, java maybe, but c# doesn't even require .csproj files nowadays, it's really nice to use

Why? It's a great language. Very productive. Ideal for compilers too.

Is this satire or did you actually watch the streams?

He doesn't actually use rust "idiomatically". He calls this "crust":

1. Every function is unsafe

2. No references, only pointers

3. No cargo, just rustc

4. No std, only libc

...

I don't know if he is sticking to these rules throughout but that was the idea in the beginning of this project.

https://github.com/tsoding/Crust

Just checked, I have 6.5GB of memory leak, only running Little Snitch for two days. Ouch!

Damn if only they told us yesterday before I restarted for the first time in a month. I wonder how big my memory leak would have been. I have only been online for about 11 hours (~9 of those were in hibernation) now and already at a 13MB leak.

I’ve been restarting my MacBook weekly for 2 years now. It’s way more than I’ve done this with Windows.

I reported that to them and at least based on the interaction they have no idea for last few months. I just have to restart them or the whole MacBook Air from time to time. I suspect it is not their issue lately as I saw others have this issues. Well … now I know. Or may be I just guess.

Yeah, I stopped using it because of that.

I've never read a book from MWL that wasn't entertaining and full of knowledge even in a field where I had years of experience.

Big Tech tought us that Running Your Own Mail Server is too hard, too complicated and coerce sysadmins by flagging mail from independent mail servers as Spam.

I'm looking forward to this book and hope that MWL will address that particular problem in detail.

I definitely wonder what he proposes to do about Google etc. treating everyone else's email as spam.

Yes. Yes it does. I have a backer preview copy and it covers it in detail and with his signature humor

The macOS version is not available as 32-bit edition so it is twice as expensive as the cheapest 32-bit version.

Also, you are not allowed to give a saved image away / cannot run it without the licensed LispWorks installation.

> Also, you are not allowed to give a saved image away / cannot run it without the licensed LispWorks installation.

I think you're not talking now about the HobbyistDV version mentioned in the parent comment, are you?

macOS itself is no longer available as 32-bit edition, but as 64bit versions on two processor platforms.

Have you tried the Alive plugin?

There is also now a very good Common Lisp plugin for Jetbrains IntelliJ which was just released a few days ago.

On the other side, as a developer, you should not be dependent on a single web-based editor to use a specific language. There are many great programming languages out there that run best _outside_ VSCode and I'm glad they still exist.

If you overlook the power of Lisp (and all the effort that is going on in Common Lisp, Racket, Scheme communities etc.) than this is really your loss.

Amazing work by the author of the Common Lisp Cookbook. I've hesitated to get into CL for months, but seeing about all the activity going on, I'm in for 2023.

Thank you and all for the kind words, appreciated.

Me too.