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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Replying to @chaosprime
I agree that most web code is crap, but if they were forced to use C++ it would still amount to 876 MB due to memory leaks. Nothing short of real AI can force code to be good. Here's Steve Yegge on pitfalls of low level languages and local optimization http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2009/03/optimization-again-from-steve-yegge.html …
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Replying to @antimule
honestly, we don't actually need programmers to manage memory C++ style, we just need them to be *able* to. the real problem is that GC languages implicitly teach people that malloc is a free operation and therefore teach them to waste it absolutely firehose-style
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Replying to @chaosprime @antimule
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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Replying to @chaosprime @antimule
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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