We're now hiring someone to help work on the compiler and surrounding tools like program visualization and debugging. Help save civilization from the vicious feedback loop of bad software, and accompanying skill deterioration, into which we are getting stuck.
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I'm looking for a systems-programmer kind of person for this role. Game and graphics experience is helpful but not required. Real experience with complex software written in systems programming languages like C or C++ is required...
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Academic or industry experience with compilers may be a negative if you are very much a believer in the way those things are conceptualized and executed, because so much of that stuff is wrong or unnecessary. If you have worked on those things but see that much is done wrong,
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that's a positive. DM me and we can discuss / I can give you further details how to apply. Please do not apply if you like web programming, or if you want to implement a garbage collector.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
Do you have a take on Go's garbage collection? https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote Looks beautiful to me.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @BippinBits
The D language group has an article claiming programs with GC can be faster than manually managed ones at times (https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html …). Does this only apply against programs doing RAII + ref counting, or is there no merit at all to this?
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Replying to @TheGag96 @BippinBits
Everyone always says this. Java people said this and still do. They are always comparing against slow programs because they don’t really know what fast is.
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Jon, you don't understand. Garbage collectors are faster because humans don't know all the secret opcodes that the GC and the CPU whisper to each other when humans aren't listening.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow and
People are being ruled by their abstractions. They don't know what's in them, how they work, and can't say sensible things about them.
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