[kwlug-disc] 2020

[Jason Eckert]

> When people ask me what I'll be doing next year, I say "How should I
know?  I don't have 2020 vision!"
In 2020, we're going to going to have an entire year of bad puns about
vision. I can see it quite clearly....
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:17 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> When people ask me what I'll be doing next year, I say "How should I
> know?  I don't have 2020 vision!"
>
>
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 18:40, Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the future, everybody.
>>
>> * Replace my old MacBook Air with a Linux laptop. I don't know which
>> manufacturer/model, though. (Apple is the past, Linux is the future.)
>>
>> * Learn WebAssembly. Port Curv to WASM.
>> * Learn more about optimizing compilers. Add a decent optimizer to Curv.
>> * Learn more about GPU programming. Especially the new WebGPU standard.
>> Port Curv to WebGPU once it becomes viable.
>> * Learn more about projectional code editors and visual programming
>> languages.
>>
>> Rust is interesting, but the cost of converting 10,000 lines of C++ code
>> to Rust may outweigh the benefits. Also, certain C++ libraries I need have
>> no proper Rust equivalent, and you can't just wrap the library in a Rust
>> interface via C because template expansion and function call inlining is
>> critical to the performance benefits given by the library. So I will
>> continue to wait and see. Rust may be the future, but I'd prefer something
>> with similar performance and safety that is much easier to use.
>>
>> WASM is also not ready for prime time: I want performance equal to native
>> code (not 1.5x to 2.1x slower), SIMD, threads, and other stuff (that I know
>> they are working on).
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Ron Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>> Weird saying that, 2020.
>>
>> Just wanted to drop a quick note -- did not not make it to many 2019
>> meetings, but am hopeful 2020 will will greet me with a prod to get off my
>> a$$ and get on with participating more.
>>
>> I follow much of the discussions with interest, a lot of it is very much
>> past my pay grade, but am always grateful to be privy to the discussions.
>>
>> 2020 Linux resolution, , I will get more in the know about bash
>> scripting. What is your 2020 Linux/FOSS resolution?
>>
>> All the best for 2020 you generous folks,
>>
>> Ron Singh
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