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> What would Target do if their canned beans vendor started putting labels on the cans like "we sold this item for $0.23. Anything else is profit that your store is charging you."?…

OCaml has an incredible optimizer, and many of the abstractions that one would use in OCaml are transparent to the optimizer. You could say the opposite about Go.

Human Chess players lost against Deep Blue in 1997; people still play Chess. In fact, they've learned a lot of strategies from the strategically superior AI.

Here's an example scenario: 1. Your PR is tested with the merge against Master. All green! 2. Another PR is tested with the merge against Master. All green! 3. The other PR goes in…

For Microsoft at least, most of my coworkers send their kids to public school.

I work on the C# compiler and the answer over in that world is "no"; everything needs to be supported.

Another thing that I should mention is that most langauges, features like generators / async / exceptions don't compose well at all. In a language where these features are implemen…

The page that you linked to shows off some features that are not really found in any major programming langauge. Time-traveling search is a big one for me. Many languages have exce…

I've been playing around with delimited continuations in a toy programming language of mine for a while now and I seriously think that its a paradigm that will eventually take over…

> How many NPM repos are there? Just one, too-big-to-fail, centralized repository. There are actually plenty, it's just that they're usually found on-prem at a company.

> I think the generalization of "use-after-free" to "use-after-invalidation" is the most important > I wonder if this sort of vulnerability is possible in Rust Rusts borrow checker…

I didn't say "a" deb repo, I said "the standard debian repository". Just like when I'm talking about NPM, I'm talking about the main NPM repository, not my company's private NPM se…

Let's say that you and I both create a library. You try to publish your C++ library to the standard debian repository, and I'll try to publish mine to cpam, npm, pip, etc... If you…

The most important part of language tooling for me is reproducability. I should be able to do the following to any project: git clone && cd build And have it fetch all of that proj…

Ended up just writing it in Rust which I've been using for years now. I wanted to try something new, it's hard to compete with Cargo for package management + build tools.

It was the last unit in senior math at my high school.

"time in the gym" is way easier to measure than tangible improvement. It's not surprising that people try to optimize things that are the easiest to graph in Excel :P

I did see that, but I discounted it because I wanted to make a serverside (native, not serverside-js) application, and I assumed that the reason-react-example was only for making c…

I tried using Reason for a side project. Getting the build tools and the package manager for ocaml took too long so I gave up.

Sure. That's a property of the language, not S-Expressions. It's just like how SQL decided to write all their queries backwards making it impossible to do good autocomplete.

Autocomplete is most commonly used on structures in order to find out which fields and methods that structure contains. If you used an s-expression based grammar that still had fie…

That is super impressive! I can't find the part on incomplete AST or AST reuse in their reference docs though.

I don't see why they would be any better or worse than another grammar choice. It might be true that s-expressions would make people prefer certain semantic decisions that would be…