"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." -- Herbert Simon
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A deep dive on ABI design tradeoffs, and how Swift approached the problems in this space;
https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/
(Compared with C++/Rust, it avoids monomorphisation and does more boxing, with attention to details that affect performance)
Inevitably I find some small thing to change in my code just after I've done a release.
I'm feeling motivated, I'm paying attention to detail, and stuff just jumps out. I suspect it's because I end up looking at different parts during a release.
How Tumblr has developed over time, the importance of continued attention by the developers, and the community consequences of seemingly minor features:
