i'm sure it's a coincidence that we decided it was too much to ask for programmers to handle memory allocation and twenty years later if you leave a social media website tab open for a day now it's using 876 MB of memory
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if you just dial that back *moderately* instead of writing everything as fluent transformations that allocate twelve intermediary data structures because those look nicer than crusty old for loops in your IDE, the results are tremendous
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How do you feel about Rust's memory management?
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i haven't fucked with it, people seem enthused which arouses both hope and suspicion
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agree with everything you said. I just think that it also needs to be said that low level langs implicitly teach ppl too much local optimizatiin too early and that is not great either as Yegge noted.
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Can we jump straight to blaming development frameworks that implement seven layers of objects in order to output text to the screen?
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heck yeah
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nonono everything in the proper order. you must complain about the poor SQL generation of ORMs first before you move on to complaining about the poor memory management of templating languages.
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hey who remembers Smarty that time we decided that we needed to write a templating language in PHP, which is of course a templating language some kind of diabolical inverse nominative determinism going on there
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<? ok now it parses
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