I enjoyed the content, but could have done without the constant hyping up of the edginess of lock free data structures. I mean yes, like almost any heavily optimized structure there are trade offs that prevent this optimization from being globally applicable. But also being borderline aroused at the “danger” and rule breaking is tiresome and strikes me as juvenile.
The bullet points and some of the edge definitely smell like LLM assistance.
Other than that I take the other side. I’ve read (and subsequently never finished) dozens of programming books because they are so god awfully boring. This writing style, perhaps dialed back a little, helps keep my interest. I like the feel of a zine where it’s as technical as a professional write up but far less formal.
I often find learning through analogy useful anyway and the humor helps a lot too.
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I enjoyed the content, but could have done without the constant hyping up of the edginess of lock free data structures. I mean yes, like almost any heavily optimized structure there are trade offs that prevent this optimization from being globally applicable. But also being borderline aroused at the “danger” and rule breaking is tiresome and strikes me as juvenile.
The bullet points and some of the edge definitely smell like LLM assistance.
Other than that I take the other side. I’ve read (and subsequently never finished) dozens of programming books because they are so god awfully boring. This writing style, perhaps dialed back a little, helps keep my interest. I like the feel of a zine where it’s as technical as a professional write up but far less formal.
I often find learning through analogy useful anyway and the humor helps a lot too.
To each their own. I thought it was hilarious and kept the article entertaining throughout, with what would otherwise be a fairly dry subject.
It is juvenile, but what do we know? Real Men use after free, so they wouldn't even use Rust to begin with.
The edgy tones sound like from an LLM to me..