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I think it has to be parallel by symmetry.

Array iteration got checked into the prelude so this is now shorter: https://godbolt.org/z/YYheo19ea

Carbon is performance-first, so ABI instability is the default. We plan to have opt-in ABI stability, but that story is not well developed yet. Replacing C as the lingua franca is …

That is correct. Strings and I/O both have a bunch of work to be done. Printing currently requires workarounds like https://godbolt.org/z/MP4164f7s

The nightly release of the Carbon compiler can be used via https://carbon.compiler-explorer.com/ . Note that it is definitely a work in progress, it hasn't even reached our v0.1 go…

https://learning-rust.github.io/docs/lifetimes/ > Lifetime annotations are checked at compile-time. ... This is the major reason for slower compilation times in Rust. This misconce…

10^12 But don't you want 10^x to be slightly bigger than 256^y, so you could represent all length-y byte sequences in x-digit number? In this direction, there's 10^53 > 256^22, but…

That is what I was thinking of too! From 2014: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... .

(Carbon lang dev here.) Carbon is intended to be memory safe! (Not sure whether you intended to write a double negative there.) There are a few reasons that might not be clear: * C…

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/space-based-so...

[Carbon team member here.] Carbon is still a small team, so it is going to take time to achieve all of our goals. Carbon will need to demonstrate both C++ interop and memory safety…

(2019)

[1] on structured concurrency gives good context for Dijkstra's GOTO paper and how it is applicable today. [1] https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/space-based-so...

There is no place on the moon that isn't in shadow 14 days at a time. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2022/07/03/powering-the-l...

I don't think Rust polymorphism is decidable: https://sdleffler.github.io/RustTypeSystemTuringComplete/

I suspect this is a follow-up to this recent article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28017204

Robinhood's app has a 1.2 star rating at the moment. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinhood....

I know the author, if you have any questions.

I'm on the team that worked on this -- happy to answer questions!

In fact, the typical way to visualize word2vec embeddings is t-SNE.