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Meta: How can we grow this community? in c/rust@programming.dev

[–] parens@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I think it's difficult to grow programming communities. The rust forums themselves aren't the most active (a post an hour and maybe 2 comments an hour?) and those are official. Can we hope to grow beyond that?

Personally, my presence here is mostly passive to read news about rust. I wouldn't mind a bot posting links to:

official blog entries
blog entries from rust maintainers
merges to "awesome rust" repositories
videos uploaded by various rust conference channels
announcements from rust conferences

Basically a "global" rust RSS feed that I don't have to do the work of cobbling together.

If that bot were opensource, then there could be suggestions to add RSS feeds or some other integration to get news.

Apple Wants To Kill PWAs in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] parens@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Same reason NFC payments on Android were super niche for years before Apple finally implemented it

I'm very interested in why you think that. Do you have numbers?

The concept of a mobile wallet was invented in Kenya in 2007 with no input from Apple. That then spread to East Asia where in China, not NFC payments but QR-code payments have been a thing since 2011 and they have barely caught on in the West. There are massive developments and usage of different technologies happening outside of Western countries of which the majority are now on Android simply due to price.

Or why so many apps don’t use Android features that would improve them because iOS doesn’t offer that feature

Which features are these?

Are you an Android user? And which continent are you on? I'm guessing your views are very much centered around a personal experience in a single country or even region, but I may be wrong.

Has anybody been recruited "automatically"? in c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

[–] parens@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had multiple responses asking to take a test before any call or interview. A fair bit, actually. Only agreed to it once and won't do it again either, but in this economy, it wouldn't surprise me if desperation drove people to just do it.

Apple Wants To Kill PWAs in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] parens@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm... OK. Not sure you're right in this instance. PWAs have been shit on iPhones for ages due to everything being forced to use Safari on that platform. Probably less people use PWAs on iPhone than on Android. Most people probably didn't even know of PWAs (as seen right in this comment section in a tech community).