On the night of New Year’s Eve, my backpack was stolen from me on the train from Berlin to Amsterdam, and with it about $2000 worth of equipment, clothes, and so on.
Sounds like someone is too stupid to guard his belongings on an international train, unless someone sucker punched him in an empty car (unlikely) he probably left it unsupervised for long enough to be nicked. What a retard.
Gossip at the hackerspace,
Dependable Drew, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, always knowing the right words to say, ready to help and proud to be there for his friends. Friends who, amidst these crises, are struggling to be there for him.
How humble. Maybe he actually isn't an ear to listen, or a shoulder to cry on but a wall to shout at. Besides, what kind of empathy can one expect from someone who's website is firstname lastname dot com.
No one cares at all about Hare, Drew.
Why do they come up with these blunt, ungoogleable names? "Drew de vault hare" leads me to this eventually:
https://harelang.org/blog/2022-04-25-announcing-hare/ (archive)
I happen to know a thing about programming languages, so this spikes my interest for a while.
At a first glance I thought it was Rust, because it looks exactly like Rust. What is it with all of them mindlessly copying precisely the same lexical style?
The "program which computes it's own SHA256 hash" is a particularly stupid example which just calls a library function on a file contents of "main.ha". Oh and to make things harder, file.readall() is now called io.copy(). Awesome convention there, Drew. And what is with these stupid exclamation marks after function calls? Anhow, let's go on
Hare is most similar to C, and almost all programs written in C can also be written in Hare. Hare is simpler than C, however.
This is a lot of nonsense so let's unpack it few tokens at a time:
Hare is most similar to C
I don't know which C standard he is referring to, unless it's one from his insane vision of future where they replaced C with Rust.
and almost all programs written in C can also be written in Hare.
This is true for all programming languages which are Turing-complete. Actually no. "all", not "almost all" programs written in C can also be written in any other real programming language. But this implies that there are C programs that cannot be written in Hare.
Hare is simpler than C, however.
Why is he talking about C? And no, it's not simpler than C. It's mindlessly engineered to be similar to Rust but not quite. It is similar enough that if you know Rust you do not need to learn the basics, instead you memorize all the cases where hare does it a little differently.
The
Hare standard library has what we feel is the “correct” number of batteries. It has a small, fixed scope, but also offers support for many use-cases without having to reach for any dependencies. This includes:
How to implement your own crypto suite: Step 1: Do not.
Selected quotes from
https://docs.harelang.org/crypto (archive):
Important notice: Hare's cryptography implementations have not been audited. You can contribute to the funding of an independent audit of our cryptography implementation on OpenCollective:
Cryptography is a difficult, high-risk domain of programming. The life and well-being of your users may depend on your ability to implement cryptographic applications with due care.
We reserve the right to make breaking changes to this module in the future, which may prevent data prepared by old versions from being readable by new versions. Such changes will be accompanied with an increment of the major version of the standard library, as well as a changelog explaining what changes are required of downstream users, and a migration procedure will be prepared.
Drew appears to be yet another person starting a useless project, which aim is to replace something, with something that is specifically different and worse. He does it to become Very Important as the lead developer of hare. He says he spent 2 years working on it. He insists on comparing it to C while the syntax, library, and style looks exactly like Rust. It does not even have academic value because it brings nothing new into the world of programming languages.
