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I don't tend to believe people who say that everyone working in a particular field are crazy and stupid. Wrong maybe. Whole fields are wrong all the time. But not because they're a…

You can have multiple threads with coroutines. However you generally only have one thread per CPU/hardware thread, and use async io within that thread. This is the general architec…

I wonder what the performance difference is when you're actually handling the errors though. I'd imagine that try { doThing(); } catch (Exception1 e) { handleError1(); } catch (Exc…

A lot of people will recommend reading great code -- well known open-source libraries etc. That's good, but one thing I think is useful is to read your dependencies. Then you can g…

I think they're just being very strict about what counts as breaking. They gave the example of upgrading the typescript compiler they use as breaking.

Rust has overflow checking in debug mode, but release mode does not have any overflow checking. The thinking here is that you'll hopefully catch most of your overflows while testin…

Modern JS does allow you to send large buffers from one worker to another with just a pointer copy (because it stops being accessible from the sender).

Sounds like a similar process to hand-pulled cotton candy, just with pasta instead of sugar. here's how to make that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auRNHI2nkIU

for migrations in go, check out goose ( https://bitbucket.org/liamstask/goose ). I've used it, and it's pretty simple, but works pretty well. You can write migrations either in pla…