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Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom.

It's great because of how accessible it makes compilers to average programmers, and, as a bonus, it also throws shade at the overly dense compiler textbooks:

"Classic compiler books read like fawning hagiographies of these heroes and their tools. The cover of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools literally has a dragon labeled “complexity of compiler design” being slain by a knight bearing a sword and shield branded “LALR parser generator” and “syntax directed translation”. They laid it on thick." (chapter 6)

Having read Compilers for a compilers course in college, Crafting Interpreters was a fun read on many levels.

Your statement that C cannot be used to implement zero cost abstractions is factually false. There are no other options here. You said something that is incorrect.

Edit: downvoting will not change that

Sure, but your statement about C remains false.

It's certainly possible to build a compiler in C for a language that provides zero cost abstractions.

In a normalized database that's true, but in a denormalized database, by definition, you get a third option, which is to have tables with redundant data that can be returned in a single query (as if it were pre-joined, I suppose).

Are joins in a 5NF database now as fast as querying a denormalized database?

I've never liked the "you'll get used to it" approach to life.

I prefer to make my life harder by pursuing the perfect solution. It has bitten me in the behind multiple times in the past :)

I think its killer feature is the memory safety guarantees, but other than that, I just don't find it as readable as other modern languages, mainly because it's symbol heavy.

Yeap, our team has a few quick-and-dirty GUI tools in Flutter

I work at Meta and I use tools written in bash, C, Java, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin and Dart daily. I've definitely noticed that some C++ tools are moving to Rust. I would have preferred to see D in its place, but it is what it is.

Personally I'm not a fan of Rust, but it is interesting to see how the language is growing as it hits mainstream. Lots of similarities with Go back when it was cool and hip.

I loved 50% of my Master's degree program. Those were the best CS courses I ever took (writing assemblers, compilers, CPUs in FPGA, OS kernels from scratch). I could have presumably avoided the degree and done it all by myself, without the knowledge of a professor, without the support of the TA and without feedback from others, but it would have taken at least twice as long and I am not entirely sure I would have been able to get to the finish line.

This is my biggest issue with working at FAANG (been at 2). Lots of people just don't give a shit. To paraphrase the Silicon Valley show: "you got your RSUs now fuck off for 4 years". I can't fault people for making the best financial decision for them, but for crying out loud, give a shit about the code. Write the unit test. Write the docs to explain the architecture. Refactor the code while you're editing that file. Think about class and method names. Give a shit.

I wish the problem were my misunderstanding the process, because then I could fix it easily by learning more about the process. I do get where you're coming from though.

My 'favorite' silly thing PMs do is UX research studies (typically on 5-10 people) and essentially ask completely untrained people if we should go with X/Y or Z. It's a super-effective way of avoiding responsibility for product decisions ("the data suggest we should go with Y"). If only building good products were as easy as asking what customers think they want.

Nope, an error quickly flashed on the screen (something like "Error 22", no real info) before the laptop proceeded to boot Windows.