A remarkable short story and thought experiment on charitable giving in a smart contract system: https://breakermag.com/kchain-science-fiction-premiere-byzantine-empathy/
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I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix.
Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc.
https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
What are the most interesting upcoming scripting languages? Scripting remains an important part of the programming language ecosystem.
Optimise time to first feature. Allow mutation of the running system to experiment. Interactive inspection of data.
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html