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1. Joel is trolling us, and we love it. 2. He is describing a stupid decision he made, which is framed around an unacknowledged stupid decision he made years a
by blasdel 18y ago
1. Joel is trolling us, and we love it.
2. He is describing a stupid decision he made, which is framed around an unacknowledged stupid decision he made years ago (see 3).
3. His company uses a private language they wrote themselves, for totally ridiculous reasons, despite having written essays about how "you shouldn't let your programmers use any non-mainstream languages".
- wglb 18y agoWhen I first read about Wasabi, I kind of wondered. But then in a previous lifetime, I was with a company that wrote its own compiler. A few years after that, the CEO said "thank god for that compiler" as it relieved pressure on a target chip decision. Similarly, Wasabi has targeted a completely different end architecture with apparently little fuss. This is not a trivial result.