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:
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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
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.
I certainly see the appeal of ChatGPT as a conversational interface for knowledge questions, but it's wrong often enough that I can't trust it.
Prompt: What does :extend do to an Emacs font face?
This is wrong (it's confused with :inherit) and it's hallucinated a version constraint.
