miniblog.

Suppose you want to make a small, hackable interpreter, so you write an AST walker. Could you recover performance by supporting lightweight threads that use all the CPUs? The Python GIL preferred single threaded performance over multithreading, this is the opposite.

Suppose you have an awesome idea for a programming language. What use case do you focus on for V1? Web apps? Games? Something else? How would you choose your niche?

It's interesting how [.] is increasingly the standard for talking about dangerous domains: http://evilsite[.]com It's not a format that needs to be consumed by anything, although I suppose a standard makes grepping easier.