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As a developer of desktop applications as well, I've asked myself these same questions. While I don't have any definitive answers for you, I'll share my thoughts. If you consider t…

Interesting... How do you schedule this? If the queue is empty, do you back off and retry later, or spin the query until it returns a queue item, or some other way? It's a nice app…

Indeed, the whole press release brings to mind a couple of points from "Engineering a Safer World" which, if you're interested in this stuff, I can't recommend enough[0]. In the se…

Thanks so much for your comment. I've just read (and played around with) your waveguide synthesis article, which led me down the rabbit hole of Sporth, ChucK, Soundpipe and now I f…

SNOBOL!

> why shouldn't I expect to be using these programs in 50 years? No reason at all, if they still solve the same problem, they're still the best solution. The problem with 'problems…

There are a couple of ways to look at this. Philosophically, to pick any one of your examples, my emacs is version 26.1. Is this the same software as emacs 15.10 released April 198…

My thoughts on the philosophical aspects of the article don't really relate to Rust. > These values reflect a deeper sense within me: that software can be permanent Maybe it can be…

...like all Linux installs will eventually be replaced by BSD? I don't think the big, complex picture of technology licensing can be reduced as flippantly as that.

"Fast is my favourite feature" --Someone, maybe from Google? Not sure.

Hey no problem, just add -Werror to your compiler flags (C/C++/Java) or ' true ' to your csproj (C#).

You're right, but there is a lot of misunderstanding around this end of the market, mainly because advances have blurred the traditional segmentation. When talking about ARM, the '…

Embedded developer here, ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers. I've been keeping an eye on Rust for the embedded space and although there has been a lot of movement in that area--particu…

Isn't this well understood as the 'revealed preference'? The best description I've heard of it goes: "Given a choice between X and Y, a person says 'Oh, I love Y!' but then chooses…

Electron sits in the same hybrid space as Cordova/Phonegap, and will suffer the same fate once React Native, or something similar, starts eating its lunch.

Dr Racket has something similar. http://soegaard.github.io/blog/2013/06/21/running-man/

It's not so much a question of benchmarks, it's that one of the standard C tools for reading an arbitrary string from standard input is gets(). And if you reach for that from the s…

Whatever the causes may be, the effects are the same: these large institutional office parks are designed to isolate employees and reinforce the automobile-centric suburban lifesty…

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" --Bjarne Stroustrup

The guy at my Uni would stand stand at the door when they closed the Uni bar every Friday night and proposition every girl as they filed out the door. Every one. Never failed to sc…

"Fill in your job title. If you are unemployed or a student, put N/A." Hardly equation solving.

Also picobit for scheme goodness: https://github.com/stamourv/picobit Doesn't support full numeric tower (no floats), but does implement 'unbound precision integers'. See §5.1 of t…

What an amazing thing! I wish I had this back in the day when I first learnt C and was doing all this by hand with pencil and paper. The VCR-style rewind is a nice touch.

As well as jotux's excellent reply, I'd like to add that clint, valgrind and friends help out a lot when starting out with C. Learning to use these tools well (by using them all th…