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+1. Seems like one of those things that makes for a nice hot take but doesn’t actually stand up to a rigorous technical analysis.

Along similar lines, i once watched this guy on YouTube implement a Python-based Forth _compiler_ (not interpreter) and optimize the crap out of it. It was a great video, if anyone…

I am working on a couple projects related to databases and blockchain-esque data structures, and as such have been searching for some other folks with overlapping interests to work…

I'm feeling old. This is really at the top of a HN thread? Since you self-describe as "coming from Python," you maybe haven't yet really gotten that deep into the internals of comp…

I built the core financial engineering stack at Tally and absolutely love our product! The stuff I worked on was cool (lots of highly non convex optimizations, cool statistical met…

At work I write Scala and the IntelliJ Scala support is simply unbeatable. It's refactoring engine etc. is fully Scalafied -- when you paste Java code, there's even a "translate to…