I wrote this on Mastodon, but I will copy it over here. Because he spouts nonsense all across the forum on a fairly regular basis.
The creator is a BDFL but they are against setting up a foundation because they <i>"lost faith in mankind"</i> and then ranted about "master vs main" on git, and used that to segue into a mini-rant on essentially "woke" ideology. In less than 500 characters.
> Here is a hint: If you are obsessed with racism and sexism it's because you're a racist and sexist. Now go and cancel "He-Man - Masters of the Universe" because obviously He-Man is a slave owner.
I get the vibe they might be racist, sexist, and just a bit out-of-touch with reality. I wouldn't trust having corporate code, or any code, built on it. Dude is a bit unhinged in that regard.
He's not unhinged, just a right-wing politically.
If you believe it's a crime or that we should all ignore software based on political alignment of their creators, thats telling me more about you, than Nim's BDFL.
> all across the forum on a fairly regular basis.
Two times, more than 2 years ago is not "all across" and neither it's "regular". I am a regular user on the forum, and I haven't seen any rants apart from two you referenced here.
That's total BS btw, I've been part of the Nim community for over 7 years now and never had an bad interactions with the project's lead. But I did witness behavior from certain individuals that was out of line. Some of them went on to blame Araq in other places, I have read their criticism, which I found very hypocritical. You should take their views less seriously.
And it works pretty well, coming from 6+ years of experience. It's not that strange if consider case insensitive filesystems and email addresses. But on the internet you only hear the opinion of the loudest minority.
I will add that as a library, it has a big potential to be used in resource restricted envs, such as microcontrollers. Every other JSON library under the sun uses HashMaps or Btrees to structure the tree which end up wasting space. Another interesting one called Araq/packedjson whose ideas I borrowed, might be the most space efficient design so far, however it looses on speed comparisons on operations that involve removing items. That's because some structure should be maintained and this library provides the best trade-off between complexity and space efficiency.
IPFS is slow as molasses and their solution was to introduce paid pinning services. Complete failure.
And then they announced they will willingly and proactively delete any hash that any legislative agency tells them to, and it was dead in the next minute.
Most distributed systems simply don't live up to their theory. Having a hub is simply always easier and consumers hopping temporally from hub to hub is just the most efficient mechanism.
Agreed. The idea behind IPFS is nice but we need to combine it with all the good lessons from the torrent software and stuff like NNCP in order to have something truly distributed, resilient, fault-tolerant and automatically replicated.
Nim has also a powerful deep learning library called Arraymancer. It's selling point is that you don't have to rewrite your code from research to production. It's used in various machine learning projects, but one recent one that caught my eye was https://github.com/amkrajewski/nimCSO "Composition Space Optimization"
It seems to overlook that the language model was developed using a large corpora of code, which probably includes structured fuzzers for file formats such as GIF. Plus, the scope of the "unknown" format introduced is limited.
The original test of the GIF parser does, but the VRML parser less so and the completely novel packet parser even less so. I'm not quite sure what you mean by the scope of the "unknown" format being limited – it's not the most complex format in the world, but neither is GIF.
Another test to check how much seeing the actual parser code helps is to have it generate a GIF fuzzer without giving it the code:
