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> it says to me "people who think the network is Facebook and Google accessed through a web browser"

Did you type "Web" in lowercase to make a point? :)

> I’m unaware of any other OS which implements threads this cleanly.

I believe this comes from Plan 9.

Apple would disagree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0

And when your Linux environment moves to ARM?

>macos apart from 4

AppleScript?

This seems like the wrong part of the door to fix.

comp.lang.forth gets a few posts per day, but "interesting" is debatable.

Maybe you're just putting it this simplistically for the rhetoric, but if you're doing research it's not really free. You're actually getting paid (albeit not much) and having your tuition waived to do work as a researcher.

Inferno can run on bare metal, so I'd say it's different. Urbit -- I'll believe it when I see it.

Switch to what?

But the performance doesn't have to be bad. If infinite scrolling is a problem, then either don't do it, or use a better implementation.

Sure, making is good and all, but if you want people to care you should put in effort to make them care. Toy programming languages is a very crowded space.

You might have missed the "technical" qualifier.

Twitter isn't an especially hard problem either.

They were really meant to be FLOSS alternatives to BitKeeper, not SVN.

Let's apply that "few bad apples" logic to the police force as well.

True to an extent, but consider Python which has a standard library and has also seen some of these same types of security breaches.

Remember that we're comparing this to awk…

Like… "other people using reaction GIFs".

>It's just how the particular web framework is written?

What about the framework leads to this, and how could it be changed to get better performance?

>There are so many build systems in C and C++ because for each of those, someone finds something to be inadequate and has something else that works for them.

Makes me wonder why Lisp is cursed[1] but C++ isn't.

[1]: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

What's with the shortened URL?

Obviously if you keep using it though you get used to the pain. Perhaps you'll even start to enjoy it.

Shakti has an arbitrary memory limit (like 4 GB or so).

You're ignoring the main point of the comment though:

>For example, you couldn’t write a performant compiler in them.

Facebook uses Mercurial.

Which is the LLVM Haskell Compiler

https://github.com/Lemmih/lhc

Then what are you implying?

>I simply don't want that. If I close the lid then to move the laptop more easily to the next room/next floor for a meeting, I might not want it to go to sleep.

Don't worry, it's configurable.

The blocks extension adds one extra symbol. Same deal with syntax applies as with function pointers in plain C.

That wouldn't have fixed the complexity.