Good article, though I wish it talked more about how CPUs choose what to cache

lua is a really cute and surprisingly capable language! it’s how I got my start, and it’s one of the easiest languages I’ve ever played with. it would’ve been a good pick for web, I think. probably just needed to be fleshed out more.

for real. I’m very lucky to have landed a job in it, but it’s a dry market for anyone looking if they don’t want to be doing crypto. Rust has made a big name for itself but still isn’t that popular where it matters.

the news isn’t that there’s one job listing, the news is that Microsoft office 365 is being rewritten in rust.

I do this too and it’s awesome

Rust. I’ve been using it for a while, and I’ve been using more software written in it lately. Stuff you make with it is just better in most ways. In other languages, you have to go above and beyond to make your code fully correct, safe, user friendly, and every trait I value in software. Rust makes those things easy, and so people are more willing to do them, and so things that get made in it are better. Oftentimes it’s just a matter of pulling in a crate and adding a few lines of code.

why don’t we store code unformatted and have everybody’s IDE display it with their preferred format applied? it would make everything easier and stop people bickering over pointless things.

shorter code is not always better, especially when it comes to types. building in lots of guard rails by being verbose with the type system is a good thing. “shorter = better” is the python approach that starts off fun and easy but the codebase scales extremely poorly.

hard agree. I’m sick of all the “it doesn’t matter what languages you learn” talk because it’s just not true. yes, there are broad foundational skills that apply to nearly every language, but beyond that, you’re specializing, and the way the language you choose is designed will stick with you. I’ve seen the concept that you get accents in programming languages just as much as spoken ones, and I think it’s totally true - when you learn a new language, you’re bringing your habits and assumptions from the last one. so to be honest I don’t care about the language design opinions of people who only know dynamically typed languages

parenting is really hard and I don’t think it was ever meant to be left to just two people (or worse yet, one)