@jestdotty you use the word "narcissistic" way too inflationary but I mostly agree.

Thinking about it, if the review AI analyzer is for the app owners, then why should they care? They are probably the ones who will illegally produce those fake reviews in the first place.

It seems to me that the only thing that would make sense is for the potential users of an app to be able to check for fake reviews.

Website looks quite nice and professional.
However the main purpose seems to be a central distribution and testing platform, no mentions about the AI reviews analyzer.
But it sounds like it doesn’t belong into such a platform anyway. Unless the target users are the owners of the app that they want to analyze the reviews for.
From your comment I had the impression that it was for the potential users of the apps, like I see an app in the store and want to check if one of their reviews is AI.

Also, since there are already some competitors in the market, I‘d like to see why I should use your service rather than the others which have the advantage of already being established.

@whimsical sloppily?

@Nmeri17 come on, don’t take it personally but why should we want to read some rant written like a freaking novel with unnecessary horse shit padding?
It’s not a platform for sharing poetry.
Get to the point with the minimum amount of text and I‘ll gladly read and ++ it.

@whimsical

> sure, everything comming from you is considered a compliment.

It’s most certainly not! 😅

> I've noticed that you didn't upvote my nice comment to doggii man. Is that personal? Asking for a friend.

Doggii man? Do you mean kiki with the hotdog comment? I think I did ++ that.
Not that I need to explain myself when I don’t ++ ^^

@whimsical I don’t have anything bad to say about Mono. Which is a compliment already.
Xamarin however, what a shit fest!

Yup, totally looks like written by AI.
Reading it is painful.

@jestdotty This is how I feel about many of your rants and comments tbh. I‘m not trying to be mean.

@12bitfloat yes you just derive the struct from Codable and the compiler synthesizes everything for you.
Customization can be done either via annotations on particular properties or via the serializer for overall rules like casing.

@whimsical

> Seriously, did someone ever used Mono professionally?

Yup, when I was using Xamarin.

@whimsical that‘s far from the biggest question.

Swift is Turing complete, so of course you can do it with Swift.

If your question is if I specifically could do it, then no.
I‘d need to learn a couple of things first.
But after that, obviously yes, I could do it.

@afaIk it‘s not even relevant if it‘s true because it‘s about a different topic.

Not only did it compare the wrong languages but it also talked about abstractions and safety, which is not directly related to the topic of serialization.

Useless pseudo intellectual crap.

@12bitfloat I‘m curious if the 3rd party lib from Newtonsoft is still the de facto standard for json serialization in C# 😅

But I can relate:
In Swift you just conform to Encodable/Decodable and the struct is ready to go for whatever serialization format that you like.

@afaIk he is talking about C#, not C++.
Your comment sounds like AI btw.

@whimsical it’s also totally ok to ignore Docker in 2026 🤗

It doesn’t look bad to me but imho not every game needs to aim at photorealism.
I‘m worried that this will lead to more games looking exactly the same, which is bad.

@whimsical lol

AI slop enshitification

@whimsical not a fan of bratwurst. I‘d rather have a Wiener or a 🌭

> putting an image in 2 PDFs

I think I just threw up a little.

@retoor Define what it means to be the last user on devrant ^^

@whimsical

> And yes, diagnosing you as autistic is an attack for sure.

Eggscuse me?!

I‘m too lazy to try to figure it out.
What‘s the trick? ^^

Shit, we might be at the actual death of devrant. Creating rants still not possible.

@whimsical ok ok I got it! You don’t have to repeat it four times! 🤣

@whimsical lol you didn’t really need to ask an LLM to know that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to languages, did you? 😅

And I’m not trusting LLMs to accurately evaluate my expertise based on a few comments that I made.

But thanks anyway ^^

I know you are rage baiting me by saying awesomeest is my best friend. 😛

Anyway, that chatgpt thing on the linkedin is hilarious 🤣

@whimsical I like that it serves as an example that syntactic whitespace and static and safe typing are not contradictory concepts.

Just like Swift serves as an example that elegant and convenient syntax is not contradictory to memory safety and type strictness.

It infuriates me when those things are mixed up and associated with each other just because it’s done that way in the most popular languages.

For example: JS isn’t convenient because it’s unsafe. There is no correlation in that. It’s just convenient in addition to being unsafe.

That might sound obvious but it actually disables most of the arguments being made for JS.

Btw, can’t make new rants atm. Hopefully a temporary issue

@retoor
I took a brief look at nim and overall I like it.

Funny how it takes inspiration from Python for syntax but then goes into a completely different direction, being highly static, strict and compile time focussed, unlike python. 😄

The memory management concept sounds nice enough (haven’t seen the code/syntax yet), but I’m a little bit disappointed that it goes more C++/Rust than Swift.

Still wondering why seemingly no other language does it this way.