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  • Gradle is pretty awful actually, I’ve had to deal with it for years when I was writing Java. It’s pretty much the #1 reason I’ve stopped doing anything Java related.

    Meson is the well designed option for C family languages. It also has support for Java, Rust, Swift, and a couple other languages. C is the most well supported though I think.

    It also has a built-in dependency downloader that respects the system installed packages (and therefore distro packagers).








  • I can speak a bit, I’ve been learning Russian for a bit more than a year at uni. I actually wanted to take it in high school already but they didn’t have it where I went, I had to take French.

    Я немного говорю по-русски, учу язык немного более, чем год в универе. В гимназии на самом деле уже хотел принять класс, но там не был а вместо должен был принять класс о французском языке.











  • All of the names containing “rus”/"русь"1 ultimately come from Русь from where Russia and Belarus both inherit their names.

    So, the name of the country Belarus literally means “White Rus”, and it seems like the Dutch word I assume you’re talking about for the country (Wit-Rusland) was borrowed from the Russian word белоруссия and (incorrectly, I guess?) translated as white (бело) + Russia (руссия) despite the “руссия” also in this word referring to Rus and not Russia (spelled differently as Россия).

    1 the word Россия, too, but from what I can find it is borrowed from Greek and the others including Русь from Arabic, hence the different vowel