I fear software tends towards the slowest tolerable speed. We only optimise when it's hurting us.
Perhaps we need less tolerant users? :)
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Do users of immutable systems (i.e Nix or Guix) upgrade more or less often than other platforms?
There's less pressure to upgrade (unlike a rolling release distro) but in principle upgrading is easier.
What are the most popular languages that have used an AST walker for their implementation?
I know Ruby used to do this, but there must be others.
(I'm interested in the lowest PL speed that users will tolerate if you have awesome features.)
I really like pattern matching in Rust, but I find myself using it less and less.
`if let` and `let ... else` require substantially less indentation, and I often use them for Option values.
I don't miss this syntactic sugar in OCaml though. Maybe it's just because OCaml has a 2 space indent, unlike Rust's 4 space indent?