wyldfire on std::unique_ptr implementation backed by Ethereum NFTs

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Wow, I thought for sure it was a punchline, but no:

written in rust for the hipster cred.

I'm probably a founding member of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force but stuff like this seems ... way overboard. Almost like a Poe's Law demonstration - it's hard to determine whether it's satire or not.

nexuist 5y

These are my favorite coding projects. No business case, no practicality for non-developers (or developers for that matter), no long term support, no problem solving. Just a love/hate letter to software and the absurdity it brings to our world.

gspr 5y

I assume you're very familiar with Tom7, and in particular his SIGBOVIK submissions, but just in case: Tom7!

(Good starting point for anyone who's not: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk )

sanxiyn 5y

You may enjoy DOS Subsystem for Linux: https://github.com/haileysome/doslinux

wyldfire 5y

I get the sense from other comments in this thread that I did indeed miss the point - it is satire. Just a little too subtle IMO.

sellyme 5y

Just a little too subtle IMO.

Direct quote from the linked page:

As we all know, adding blockchain to a problem automatically makes it simple, transparent, and cryptographically secure.

TeMPOraL 5y

Or:

nft_ptr has negligible performance overhead compared to std::unique_ptr, as shown by this benchmark on our example program:

  Implementation        Runtime
  std::unique_ptr       0.005 seconds
  nft_ptr               3 minutes

pjc50 5y

Of course it's satire; one of the most absurdist forms of satire is finding something ridiculous yet taken seriously, and treating it far more seriously than that.

Of course it's written in Rust.

floatingatoll 5y

It’s still a punchline

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