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Not the OP and I honestly have no idea what they mean, but the translation of a tree-walking interpreter for expressions to a stack-machine compiler is almost trivial. For example,…

Bolted on wasn't a value judgement, it was literally bolted on top, it is a strict superset (unlike C++, which is also bolted on, but poorly, since it partially breaks compatibilit…

The problem with ObjC was mainly syntax, bolted on over many years on top of a C core. It was grown rather than designed, and it shows. But there's nothing wrong with the runtime. …

Yes, finally someone else that gets it. Shadow DOM is a misfeature. Being able to customize things with external CSS is a feature of the web, not a bug.

Anthropic destroyed the books, they can't donate them again.

Eh, I don't think that's a good renaming. Data-Oriented Design is in opposition to Domain-Driven Design (a software development approach that prioritizes modeling software to match…

Yes. Array programming happens to overlap heavily with DOD in modern hardware because of caching and SIMD, but if you were programming an Atari ST it wouldn't. There are also cases…

I wasn't aware of that VC++ feature, TIL, thanks!

For std::string and std::vector yes, but not for std::span (until C++26) for reasons I cannot understand.

Partially yes. Fil-C goes further in creating an entire ecosystem of Fil-C compiled "legacy" libraries, meaning all the unsafe FFI your Rust code does into C is also safe, and even…

I don't particularly care about Rust vs Fil-C shit flinging, I don't even see them as competing since they have effectively near opposite tradeoffs. You could even use Rust alongsi…

These attempts at better GPU abstraction layers (starting from the Sebastian Aaltonen article and continuing with the Loon GPU API in the linked article or the Odin-based no_gfx) a…

By far the best feature (IMO) is that it has no trouble talking to the most important Windows COM libraries (like DirectX) and the Objective-C runtime (for Metal), and this comes a…

Yeah, all valid justifications.

Clickbait video title, the first major release is going to be 2027 (date based versioning) (j/k). Odin is a pretty neat language, I should play more with it. There's nothing outrig…

The only alternative I'm aware of with a similar level of optimization is GCC's backend, which is just as slow. Both should be much faster at compiling debug builds than they are t…

I get why you think this but you are incorrect. Why? Because managing a team of people is very very different from managing outsourced contractors, and LLMs are much more like the …

A lease should have a clear timetable. How long am I leasing this thing for? 1 year? 3 years? I'm fine with companies leasing software. I don't like it, and I much prefer buying, b…

There are various ways to solve the problem (if you consider it a problem, I personally don't, there's no need for things to be this extremely decoupled, but for the sake of argume…

No it is not a fault of OOP, it is just that OOP does not really provide the tools to help either. It is the fault of people with the wrong expectations or of those trying to sell …

I think dogma is far worse than "tight coupling" or introducing mutation or even inheritance when it is the simplest and most direct solution to a problem. People get too hung up o…

It's not really true that components in physical engineering domains have no memory. The behavior of many physical components can only be described with access to a recent history.…

Languages with refinement types (or contracts) like Dafny and Liquid Haskell can typically handle numerical predicates directly. Some can even handle string predicates directly, in…