On the engineering effectiveness of shared internal communications, rather than siloed emails.
https://www.mattritter.me/?p=526
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It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded performance! https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/73vs3766/AMD-Athlon-64-4000+-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-PRO-4650U
Maybe *relative* performance of languages matters more?
It's so strange that we talk about languages being slow, and have done for years. Computer performance has increased so much in this time.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/is-python-slow/ (shared on HN in 2009) discusses Python being slow. My underpowered Thinkpad has 20x the single-threaded perf!
I enjoyed this interview with Lukas Wirth, one of the maintainers of rust-analyzer: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/lukas-wirth/
I didn't realise how little code was shared between rustc and rust-analyzer (only lexing and type layouts). This makes it hard to track new Rust features.