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Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom. It's great because of how accessible it makes compilers to average programmers, and, as a bonus, it also throws shade at the overly dense compiler…

Your statement that C cannot be used to implement zero cost abstractions is factually false. There are no other options here. You said something that is incorrect. Edit: downvoting…

Sure, but your statement about C remains false.

It's certainly possible to build a compiler in C for a language that provides zero cost abstractions.

In a normalized database that's true, but in a denormalized database, by definition, you get a third option, which is to have tables with redundant data that can be returned in a s…

Are joins in a 5NF database now as fast as querying a denormalized database?

I've never liked the "you'll get used to it" approach to life. I prefer to make my life harder by pursuing the perfect solution. It has bitten me in the behind multiple times in th…

I think its killer feature is the memory safety guarantees, but other than that, I just don't find it as readable as other modern languages, mainly because it's symbol heavy.

Yeap, our team has a few quick-and-dirty GUI tools in Flutter

I work at Meta and I use tools written in bash, C, Java, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and Dart daily. I've definitely noticed that some C++ tools are moving to Rust. I would have preferr…

I loved 50% of my Master's degree program. Those were the best CS courses I ever took (writing assemblers, compilers, CPUs in FPGA, OS kernels from scratch). I could have presumabl…

This is my biggest issue with working at FAANG (been at 2). Lots of people just don't give a shit. To paraphrase the Silicon Valley show: "you got your RSUs now fuck off for 4 year…

I wish the problem were my misunderstanding the process, because then I could fix it easily by learning more about the process. I do get where you're coming from though.

My 'favorite' silly thing PMs do is UX research studies (typically on 5-10 people) and essentially ask completely untrained people if we should go with X/Y or Z. It's a super-effec…

Nope, an error quickly flashed on the screen (something like "Error 22", no real info) before the laptop proceeded to boot Windows.

I bought one of these laptops. It came with Windows 11. I followed the steps on Ubuntu website to flash a USB drive and the laptop didn't boot from it, despite selecting to boot fr…

I did not suggest it would be easy and also, someone has to imagine a competitor company before it can exist.

It is objectively not ludicrous. It might go against the commonly taught idea that businesses should focus solely on generating profits, but it is not unreasonable to create a syst…

Absolutely! Speaking of operators, out of curiosity, what's the reason for using '!' with templates? Naively, I would think that making template instantiation look the same as a fu…

Thanks Walter, that's a great example and I like that, because parens are optional, it could also be written as e.d.c(3).b.a which is even cleaner. For those who are thinking UFCS …

Thanks for your comment. Please rest assured I am not abusing OOP, and am absolutely not contradicting myself by choosing C.

D is by far my favorite language. I put in a lot of effort to learn the language and thoroughly enjoyed discovering D's elegance. It has super clean solutions to all sorts of langu…

In terms of developing software without distractions, I like to recreate airplane conditions. I load devdocs.io in a persistent tab, get all the software I think I'd need for the d…

Your choice of words tells me this will not be a productive conversation.

Your rights end where my rights begin. It's only a knot if your brain doesn't care for other people.