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Experience Report: 6 months of Go
A report of my positive and negative experiences with Go after using it for 6 months at work.
Varun Gandhi
My current interests include compilers, databases, version control, developer tools, light-weight formal methods, and resilience engineering. Feel free to or send me an email or message me on Twitter . I prefer email since I don't check Twitter DMs that often.
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An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages
Musings on the representation, propagation and handling of errors in existing programming languages, as well as thoughts on future systems. (15K+ words)
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Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages
A discussion of some of the downsides of Zig
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Optimizers need a rethink
Thoughts on how compiler and database optimizers should evolve in the future, focusing on predictability and guarantees instead of smarts and heroics
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Job queues are deceptively tricky
A worked out example of different job queueing semantics and how they affect workloads.
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Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
Discussion on notions of software complexity as defined by Rich Hickey, John Ousterhout and Zach Tellman.