Post #3721957
2026-07-10 17:35 UTC
@zwarich@hachyderm.io @joe@f.duriansoftware.com Oh yeah, it’s even more ridiculous than I imagined it would be at first glance because of that.
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@zwarich@hachyderm.io 2026-07-10 17:53
@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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@slava@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-10 17:39
@zwarich@hachyderm.io @joe@f.duriansoftware.com You could use a nonsensical built-in bitwise ordering as the basis for something Opinionated™️ like saying that the default associative collection implementation is a balanced binary tree that uses this ordering, because you personally believe hash tables are too nondeterministic or something