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Today I learnt that Scheme (1975) is actually older than Common Lisp (1984)! I'd assumed that Scheme designs were a response to CL. Many of the CL features were created earlier, in fairness. CL was standardising the feature set.

tree-sitter is wonderful, but it struggles if you try to parse its own output files. In fairness, parsing a multi-megabyte C file is hard. The C# parser has a parser.c file totalling 18MiB!

Deep dive into netcode in the Apex Legends shooter, respecting fairness between players with different latencies, and choosing server tickrates: