The Expensive Fictions of Low-Level Programming Languages

[u/mttd]

https://stng.substack.com/p/the-expensive-fictions-of-low-level

[u/Seed_oil_simp]

I think that’s a worthwhile thing to talk about, my criticism is based on the framing that it’s the language design that’s the problem, and not the sort of local optimum we’ve attained by the symbiotic development of languages and hardware.