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Thanks!

Thanks, will do 🫡

There's a spectrum of how automatic things get in different languages but there's the issue of making it an unobservable optimisation, and also making it not over parallelise. There are lots of interesting approaches in academia but nothing really in mainstream languages and nothing that definitively solves the problem. That being said, I also do not solve the problem lol, I just offer a potential direction that could.

Fun fact: you can email authors of papers and ask for a PDF. Authors don't get paid when you buy a paper (in fact it usually costs money to publish) and they'll generally be happy to send out their work to anyone interested.

Thanks. The type system of the language has some interesting novelty but my key research area is automatic parallelisation of code written in that language.

Currently working on my PhD thesis which is due at the end of the month. I'm cutting it quite close but if everything goes according to plan I should have it all done on time.

I kind of like Oreo coke. Kind of like a coke vanilla but a bit sweeter?

D&D monks be like

Docs are good, but the main thing is that there are just fewer steps due to good tooling.

As an application author, Snaps are much easier to create than Flatpaks.

BG3 has couch co-op, which is pretty neat

Our restrictions were basically lifted after four weeks in 2020 because that was enough to eliminate the virus. I think going a bit authoritarian with the lockdown maximised our freedom in the long run that year.