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You get C++... take that as you will.

Smalltalk? Interesting! May I ask what industry / product area you work in?

I'm surprised they used only a twin-engined aircraft for such a long flight.

Saving in developer salaries is the only tangible one. You could argue there is less context switching for developers between languages, but I’ve never actually heard that from someone who builds the apps.

I think that originally, it was indeed supposed to be an optimizing virtual machine. IIRC, Lattner's PhD thesis might have been about it.

Thank you! Looks very interesting. As for working with LLVM codegen libraries, would you recommend anything beyond the official docs? I found that most books for this sort of thing are based older APIs from a few versions ago.

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! Are there any books or other resources that you found helpful in learning and implementing Whack? I’m dabbling a little bit with PLs and would love to hear your opinion.

If you need well-maintained mobile SDKs, Mapbox's pricing model is a lot more straightforward. If all you need is basic mapping on the web, OpenStreetMap is adequate.

"we once patched openssl to ignore client cert expiry because somebody forgot to create a process to update keys in the field and all the customer cars started falling offline because their certs had expired."