otto-edgar

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1. 1.▲
   by otto-edgar 3y ago

   What do you find insane about the C# `List` source code? I'm not a C# programmer, but the public API looks sound, and the entire thing is like 1K LOC including docstrings (I guess the inherited code would add to that).
2. 2.▲
   by otto-edgar 3y ago

   I think the point is that these data structures can be the foundation of a pure-functional style of programming. You wouldn't drop these into an ecosystem where the programmers are used to dealing with mutable structures. Now, whether
3. 3.▲
   by otto-edgar 4y ago

   I think TCO and JVM are orthogonal discussions -- by the time the bytecode is generated, the TCO may have already been performed.