Nice article. Tricky bug. Good diagnosis. I enjoy diagnosing concurrency issues and thinking about what principles I could use to avoid similar issues in future. Two principles that are relevant to this example are: 1.…
> Lisp guys have nothing to sell you but probably the software they create. And if they have a powerful tool, they are not that interested on you knowing their secret. This level of claim is indistinguishable from…
> "... by individuals and small communities" almost invariably means "by experienced developers who want a playground." I acknowledge this. > "Why should an ordinary user care about this?" isn't asked nearly as often as…
Great article. I see this trend too: the systems powering the modern world are increasingly featureful, complicated, centralised into a few hands, and this will likely continue. I'm a keen developer and user in this…
Nice article. Tricky bug. Good diagnosis. I enjoy diagnosing concurrency issues and thinking about what principles I could use to avoid similar issues in future. Two principles that are relevant to this example are: 1.…
> Lisp guys have nothing to sell you but probably the software they create. And if they have a powerful tool, they are not that interested on you knowing their secret. This level of claim is indistinguishable from…
> "... by individuals and small communities" almost invariably means "by experienced developers who want a playground." I acknowledge this. > "Why should an ordinary user care about this?" isn't asked nearly as often as…
Great article. I see this trend too: the systems powering the modern world are increasingly featureful, complicated, centralised into a few hands, and this will likely continue. I'm a keen developer and user in this…