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Industry is great if you want to make safe, slow bets. PG's essay on lisp is a great example of why you may not want to follow industry. However, the point I w
by vvanders 10y ago
Industry is great if you want to make safe, slow bets. PG's essay on lisp is a great example of why you may not want to follow industry.
However, the point I was making is there's not a binary switch between C/C++/Rust. There's a great interop/FFI story that allows a targeted/gradual adoption.
- taneq 10y agoI know it's kind of hallowed ground around here, but IMO that essay has one of the highest ratios of survivor bias to good advice that I've ever seen.