Writing System Software (2018) [video]
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Watching highly-effective programmers navigate, explain, and modify code can be a career-changing experience.
If you're not working in a place where these kinds of programmers accrue, you might never get the experience.
If you're reading this, antirez: thank you for making these, they're really special.
I may still use basic text editing in emacs or vim for simple scripting, but not for real development.
I am mostly writing distributed software and so far never need to use other editors for actual dev. Sometimes I was thinking: we can definitely extend or rewrite emacs to be like the powerful IDE, but it is probably just in theory.
Oh btw, did I mention the great IDE can seamlessly add headers, type declarations, fix build dependencies, fix grammar errors and typos, ... ?
The dev infrastructure and experience probably count 40% of reason why I want to stay in my current company.
Not to diminish what Antirez has done (he's awesome) but watching him code looks quite regular. I can not spot any "career changing experience" here.
Frankly when I want some info I very much prefer reading. Watching back and force moving cursor is not really much fun.
The longer you're in the game, the more "out there" something has to be to make an impression on you.
I'd guess that most people in the first couple years of programming experience (including university, for the people who come from that route), have not observed strong programmers in action, but they've been in it long enough that they can probably identify one for what they are.
I feel like role models are a critical ingredient in inspiring people to be better than they are, and the opportunity to watch role models of a certain caliber in action is rare outside of the few places where skilled programmers gather and work together.
It's with that perspective that I made my comment. It sounds like you might have a relatively high bar for programmer quality, which is great. :)
Also fwiw, I prefer reading most of the time too, although screensharing scratches a more "visceral" itch: you get a sense of what the person is thinking in the moment, which is unrefined in some ways but enlightening in others.
Salvatore is definitely someone to be looked up to in this industry.
Write ahead logs are the key to production-grade durability on just about any database system you ever come into contact with. There is a lot of prior art in this space, and lots of approaches in OSS you can look at (postgres for example), but if you're going to google for it, 'redis AOF' may not get you too far.