What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about compilers
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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3 dated positions, 2023 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe leaps going to asm has been huge. Now 8x mean on an Intel 135U!
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Our readingThe progression of compilation targets will continue down to lower levels of abstraction.
Their wordsMyopic to think we're going to stop the agentic drill bit until it reaches computing bedrock.
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsShowing up for a fight on something so ultimately unresolvable as whether to use compiler-based type checking or not offers the thrill of hooliganism
↗Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdownworld.hey.com
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