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To what extent writing your code in WebAssembly (eg Rust) can help with those points (eg structs in C argument). It would still run in a JS VM so I'm guessing a bit, but not to the full extent?

We tried to use it a year ago or so, because of the performance promise. We were getting random glitches every few thousand files during operations. There was no obvious pattern, so difficult to reproduce, and as far as I remember there was mentions of it in github. Hopefully they acknowledge and get over this hump, as it seems like a promising project all together.

I'm a bit speechless... Can someone explain how does this scheme can even exist? It sounds preposterous.

This is big! Can't wait until we have radios that can also show images.

For me personally, it's really important how productive a language environment is after a few years of development. Therefore:

- debugging environment

- memory and CPU profilers

- compilation and linting time of 100k+ codebases

- IDE support for 100k+ codebases

- static analysis & software architecture metric tooling (complexity, dependency analysis etc.)

- inherent scalability of the language, maturity of patterns & practices of scalability

That's interesting - I hate wasting food, I have never complained about my order (and not planning too, unless the food is spoiled I guess). If I don't like the food, I'll just never order again from the same place. I would definitely appreciate a company that offers money refund on food "no questions asked" even if I was never going to use it - it shows respect.

Surely, you must have sampled ethanol? ;)

In a sense, yes - I believe the damaging effects of sugar and social media on the society is far greater than psychedelics might have if decriminalised.

They definitely don't deserve to be Class A in the UK and Schedule I in the US. Even more so, they shouldn't be classified as Schedule I by the United Nations.

I'm not sure about using it regularly, but people have been using these for ceremonies for centuries. I personally believe the choice should be left with an individual.

This type of empty fear mongering comment is unhelpful at best. It's a McDonalds of a comment. What's a lot of people? Why are psychedelics so special compared to anything else (sugar, Facebook, gambling). "It doesn't happen to everyone, but it's common" - what does this even mean? "Common" based on what criterion? How should our behaviour as a society change based on your comment?

As with any metaphor, technical debt has its' limits and its' traps. IMHO the biggest problem is that a comparison with lending implies that technical debt can be managed like people do with a loan. With loan you know how much of money-equivalence you take, how much you owe and how much interest you have accumulated on top.

Most of measurement - if at all possible - is much less obvious with technical debt. And inability to easily quantify it, opens up door for corruption.

Some reasons that I don't think have been covered yet:

- experienced programmers are promoted out of the tech track - it causes all sort of problems, people keep reinventing the wheel, they are forced to relearn through their own mistakes, transfer of knowledge and skills is hampered

- (probably as a consequence of the first point) people with 3 years of experience are believed to be senior programmers

- worse even - experienced programmers are promoted to non-coding roles aka architects. Over time they increasingly disconnect from the tangible artifact (code) while still hanging onto a false belief that they can function just fine by embracing it through a metaphor (diagrams, etc.) ("Simulacra and simulation"?.. but possibly I'm digressing)