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Jun 28, 2020 at 05:31
@bamfic Lisp Machines had hardware supported tagged pointers, but I'm not aware of other features. Nonetheless, the ability to add custom hardware for your programming model worked out really well for them :)

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Jul 25, 2020 at 17:38
I think JSON vs XML is a strange dichotomy. Both can be processed by machines, but they're very different. I've seen XML work really well for dictionary data. You want to mark up text: A dog is a domesticated <group>animal</group>. In other words JSON : CSV :: XML : HTML.
Jan 16, 2020 at 10:16
It's hard to get developers to pay for tools. I think the problem is that computers are incredibly general machines. Once you've worked in programming for a while, it's easy to imagine making a whole range of tools. It's hard to guess the complexity of new domains though.
Aug 24, 2019 at 00:44
How Rust models generators and async functions as memory efficient state machines:
How Rust optimizes async/await I
The issue to stabilize an initial version of async/await in Rust has left final comment period. The feature looks slated to stabilize in an upcoming release, most likely 1.39. This represents the culmination of an enormous amount of work by people all over the Rust community. But it’s also only the beginning of async/await support in Rust. The feature set being stabilized is a “minimum viable product” for shipping async/await, and we plan to continue to expand the feature set after initial stabilization.