This is such an absolutely wild take to me. Screw those Mythbusters guys trying to explain the scientific method to people. That's not a systemic solution to fixing scientific illiteracy in the US. Sesame Street teaching kids to count? Those guys are way off the mark because it's not going to measurably improve economic performance. You'll never actually change anything just by teaching people stuff.
I'm 100% certain that Casey Muratori doesn't think that his paywalled course is going convince literally every programmer to to care about performance, or to stop Facebook from building slow apps.
He's trying to convince some small percentage of people that performance is something they should be thinking about when they program, and that they should understand the tradeoffs they are making when they choose to use some slow method, algorithm, library, language, or system because it provides some other benefit.
When someone writes a book like "math for dummies" that says on the back cover "I think basic math is a useful skill for everyone to have, and if we all learned basic math the world would be a better place!"
That's not the author stating their true belief that their book is going to literally teach the majority of the world basic math. That's an aspirational goal or in the worst case it's sales copy.
Publicly calling that person out for wasting their time is really something else.
Creating straw men to attack like "You will never be able to force developers worldwide to start writing everything in C/Assembly" when he explicitly states that this isn't his goal makes me think you're just looking for some reason to shit on the guy.
>You speak about language/libraries, what make you think it would come from those?
I have no idea when if or how a technical solution will be found.
I'm 100% certain that Casey Muratori doesn't think that his paywalled course is going convince literally every programmer to to care about performance, or to stop Facebook from building slow apps.
He's trying to convince some small percentage of people that performance is something they should be thinking about when they program, and that they should understand the tradeoffs they are making when they choose to use some slow method, algorithm, library, language, or system because it provides some other benefit.
When someone writes a book like "math for dummies" that says on the back cover "I think basic math is a useful skill for everyone to have, and if we all learned basic math the world would be a better place!"
That's not the author stating their true belief that their book is going to literally teach the majority of the world basic math. That's an aspirational goal or in the worst case it's sales copy.
Publicly calling that person out for wasting their time is really something else.
Creating straw men to attack like "You will never be able to force developers worldwide to start writing everything in C/Assembly" when he explicitly states that this isn't his goal makes me think you're just looking for some reason to shit on the guy.
>You speak about language/libraries, what make you think it would come from those?
I have no idea when if or how a technical solution will be found.