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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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Compilers Aren't Compiling at All Right

"It's insane how long compilers take right now," says kalsberg. "Writing an executable file is not that different from writing a zip file or writing a JSON file yep but it's become this magic scary thing that nobody is willing to do and especially that we can't you know i guess some people have made inroads on this like doesn't the go compiler can't that cross compile yeah and generate exceles?" Kalsberg rants under kalsberg wherever he is just suddenly feels happy doesn't know why he's doing a warm feeling  under kalsberg: It's insanity so one of my peeves is programmers today don't understand what they're doing

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