Malicious ads discussion on TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13223684920A10189100 discusses the importance of antivirus software.
I suspect that having an up-to-date browser is more important these days? It's probably the most attacked software by far.
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Watching Hytale vs Minecraft discourse reminds me of how games feel different when they're new.
Single player games have an online discussion that occurs shortly after release.
Multiplayer games rapidly develop a meta. I tried UT99 years after release and it wasn't as much fun.
Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion.
The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Futhark's design is deliberately trying to stay simple to keep long term design sustainable.
The author also has an interesting discussion of relative versus absolute paths in import syntax, and how relative paths can make local analysis easier.