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Because It's Not Fun Enough
Andrew Oram asked why programming languages rise and fall, and quoted the answer without noticing. Programming is a vocation, an art, and a job. Make any of those harder than they need to be, and your language survives exactly as long as it can't be replaced.
Kerry Ivan Kurian: Exponential Failure
Kerry Ivan Kurian's 'Exponential Failure' says AI agents multiply parts faster than they improve them, so projects fail by arithmetic. He's right about the math and wrong about the fix: the answer isn't fewer parts, it's parts you can describe.
midden: Heap Dumps from the Command Line
Midden is a single-binary heap dump analyzer for the JVM, written in Rust. Tested against two deliberate leaks and checked against MAT, it found both and got the sizes right, from a shell prompt rather than a workstation, and very quickly.
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