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I am interested in large numbers of requests per second for highly performant systems.

I wrote a parallel imaginary assembly interpreter which can send integers and code jumps between threads. This is backed by an actor system that I wrote and integrated with the interpreter that can communicate between threads. The actor system can handle between 19-100 million requests per second depending on variation. The interpreter can handle 674,552 requests per second with method sending and 1703141 without. Some variations generate messages upfront, others in parallel and others as the program works.

I am working on a multithreaded language. I want to avoid data races similar to Rust.

If you are interested in parallelism and programming language design then send me an email. Maybe we can join Multiprocess community on Discord ran by eatonphil. That server has advanced groups for operating system development, programming languages and database internals.

Things I am thinking of lately:

- automatic parallelization of code

- python GIL and threading. I need a method of sending complicated objects between interpreters that doesn't involve marshalling. I think I need to write an custom block allocator.

I also journal my computer software ideas in the open on GitHub

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/ideas4

When I say I was close with my dad, that doesnt even scratch the surface. Im 24, and I can think of maybe three weeks worth of days across my entire life where I didnt talk to him (and most of those were solo camping without cell service). Me and that man would do everything together, talk every day, share ideas, the works.

I dont want his death to be the end of my relationship with my dad, so I am currently making changes in myself that he would want to see: less soda, more exercise, more social interactions, keeping up on my health conditions more, etc. As well as doing things that I think honor his idea: trying to catalogue all of the family assets like pictures, audio recordings, letters, stories; making sure that I am not holding on to crap, and then actively protecting the good stuff I am holding on to; living every day in a way that I think is on par with his high but reasonable expectations of me as if he were still here.

I hope that as long as I live I never stop missing him or living as if he is always watching. At the end of the day, I think possibly his greatest wish for me would be to live in a way that would always make him proud, because the things he would be proud of me for are both things that I can be proud of myself for, and things that EVERYONE should be proud of.

I am a web developer (former desktop apps developer, game developer and mobile apps developer). I know C, C++, C#, Javascript. I am mainly developing for backend using microservices, .NET, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch.

I am learning Vue for work (I joined a company where I have to do full stack ) - which fits my mental model and I enjoy better than Angular and React.

But I also want to learn another language. I enjoy Nim a lot but I wouldn't invest more time in it because almost no one is using it. I've learned a bit of F# and I enjoy it, but there are no F# jobs.

Python is ok, but I am not sure what to do with Python as a web developer. It isn't the best tool for large web applications and I don't plan to transition to ML, data science or DevOps where Python has most use cases.

Next in line are Go and Rust. Go has more jobs and Rust is beginning to pick up steam. However I don't see how using Go or Rust for web is going to be better than sticking to .NET.

So I am asking what language can help me the most as a web developer. Help me means that there are some jobs, usage is on the rise and the language and the ecosystem has some advantages like performance, speed of development, better code maintenance or whatever.