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One is a boss's view, looking for an AI to replace his employees someday. I think that is a dead end. It is just getting better to become a sophisticate, increasingly impressive bu…

> To illustrate, Rust macros are basically that. They have a substantially different syntax to normal Rust code that make it very difficult to quickly grok what is going on. It's a…

M4 only do token-level macros or inline macros. M4 macros are identifier that can't be distinguished from underlying language. M4 macros does not have scopes. M4 does not have cont…

In another word, it (to have runtime macro expansion) is a side effect, a compromise, a wart, rather than a design goal, right?

> I think a general purpose macro language is only as useful as the average code-gen/templating language. It's just string manipulation, which can be harder to reason about than tr…

> That being said, I think homoiconicity is actually a useful feature, but runtime macro expansion is the dangerous part. Practically, why would you ever want a runtime macro expan…

LISP has been singing homoiconicity as its feature. I lately start to think homoiconicity is really a wart. The macros are a system to program the code, while the code is a system …

The ban is not having an issue between China and US. US can do whatever to China, and only need balance potential retaliation. There is no moral debate between countries, just powe…

Since you are already familiar with other languages, I suggest just pick a tool that you use daily that is open source in C, and start hacking it.

Some billionaires grow integrity at some point since every thing else is just money. Some billionaires never.

> C specification says a program is ill-formed if any UB happens. So yes, the spec does say that compilers are allowed to assume UB doesn't happen. I disagree on the logic from "il…

> Indeed. UB in C doesn't mean "and then the program goes off the rails", it means that the entire program execution was meaningless, and no part of the toolchain is obligated to g…

Nice! If the robots can sustain on solar energy, even better.

How silly is this.

What prevents linux to achieve the same bandwidth?

It's not about the amount of time kids takes up in your life. It is about how kids changes your life forever. Your priority in life changes, then your life changes. I guess when ki…

The `infix` syntax is missing from the major items. Without infix syntax, all languages are just variations of LISP -- I guess that was all the article is about.

For those who are interested, checkout MyDef - https://github.com/hzhou/MyDef

Yes, I agree! In fact, the break through we needed is to view programming as a human cognitive operation and embrace the text, and treat manipulating text as a main component of co…

The author's view is very relatable (to me). I am going to bookmark it since it verbalize my feeling so fittingly. I am not sure I am autistic, but I have to be to some extent. I c…

When one reads a reply that is out of his expectation, and when his expectations was for granted, then that reply will be perceived as negative or hostile, right? But the reply may…

You mean -- where to find experts that can tolerate newbie asking off-base questions and showing off their bottle half full? If you just find people with "a deep love of learning",…

> Ruby is clever, it can be beautiful, but I've never seen a good codebase using it grow well without enforcing strictly opinionated ways of writing it to ensure maintainability. I…

I think it is a crowd dumbing effect. Since hundreds of engineers sharing the mono-repo, no one can or care to make the decision or is able to push the decision for alternate. Even…