A (slightly dramatic) history of Engelbert's vision for knowledge tools, his prototypes on early timesharing systems, and the transition to personal computers:
miniblog.
Related Posts
I'm a big fan of segmented stacks (or 'split stacks'), where stack frames are heap allocated, You can write recursive functions with less worry, and you get better tracebacks than TCO.
Go is the most popular language with this feature, to my knowledge: https://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/02/why-is-a-goroutines-stack-infinite
I'd assumed that LLVM didn't support this, but gollvm handles it fine! https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/ivOZ-j6Zt2c/m/BUBX2Td9BgAJ
I'm a big fan of segmented stacks (or 'split stacks'), where stack frames are heap allocated, You can write recursive functions with less worry, and you get better tracebacks than TCO.
Go is the most popular language with this feature, to my knowledge:
Listening to the latest episode of Maintainable interviewing Daniela Baron, and she introduces a clever concept: ticket rotation.
When you divide programming jobs into tickets, deliberately give team members tickets from different areas. This prevents knowledge silos.