Write in C – Let It Be
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The 'Write in C' page on the Tcl wiki pokes fun at the tendency to rewrite Tcl extensions in C for performance, sparking a discussion on the trade-offs between C and Tcl.
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Another one writes in Rust
And another one Go, and another one Go
Another one writes in Rust (yeah)
likely still exists... it does... lol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4YRPdRXKFs
catchy song!
I was singing along and this was too many syllables. I guess "Spent nearly 30 hours" is all that fits.
Through buffer, pointer, syscall roar, I own the land, I own the shore; Let Python’s spiders weave their scheme, I’ll keep my ship rock-steady in C-stream.
I mean, that's one way to see fewer errors: If a tree writes off the end of an array in the forest, is there actually a bug?
(Yes. Yes there's still a bug.)