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#35 The Pattern of Design Patterns

Happy Path Programming

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The Importance of Languages in Programming Efficiency

A lot of stuff we do in programming is done for efficiency. Like the Julia language was designed partly around this idea that you're going to have so much memory, it's going to overfill your RAM. Rust has no garbage collector because at least with some languages, it was so hard to think about how do I clean things up. And once you get used to it, you don't think about it very much.

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