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Zygo does have infix available in addition to traditional lisp parentheses. Just put the math (or whatever) inside curly braces. I much prefer math in infix, so I put in a Pratt pa…

Wow. I have the exact opposite experience with TDD. I use TDD to set a specific goal, and to have the computer tell me almost instantly when I've reached it. Then I can unleash cre…

Apparently Netflix's CEO designed the processes in his company to avoid just this trap.

Indeed. Although he would have abhorred their anti-science tactics. And he wrote extensively about the dangers of religious idiocy.

just use an off heap hash table. simple. https://github.com/glycerine/offheap Also, as others have said, lots of big GC improvements were ignored by insisting on go1.9.2 and not th…

Google uses a subset of python called Starlark for build configuring (available in Go and I think Java). Nice if you want to be able to compute things during config. https://github…

S-expressions rule. I use them for configuration everywhere. I wrote a lovely library for parsing them in Go (along with a full lisp interpreter if you like) https://github.com/gly…

Lua is fantastic for implementing languages. I did an implementation of Golang in it ( https://github.com/gijit/gi ). With metatables one can implement any kind of object/inheritan…

The infix is optional, but I do find it nice for interaction.

Thank you. I tend to do interactive mathy things, and find the infix being the default at the repl cuts down on keystrokes and speeds up the interaction. Anything within {} curly b…