Post #3721956
2026-07-10 17:53 UTC
@slava@mathstodon.xyz @joe@f.duriansoftware.com I wanted to find some old slides from Alexandrescu where he was arguing that specialization is required for efficient systems programming. The dream of full parametricity might be fleeting; D could be the final evolution of C.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-07-10 17:57
@zwarich@hachyderm.io @slava@mathstodon.xyz specialization in the sense of monomorphization, or C++ style ad-hoc replacement of generic implementations with overloads?
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@slava@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-10 17:58
@zwarich@hachyderm.io @joe@f.duriansoftware.com See if you had asked me 20 years ago I would have guessed we’d all be using JITted languages by now