Don't worry, blogpost author. We think you're a Queue<T> and that's all that matters.

Michael Stonebraker used to write long, scathing critiques of modern data storage/retrieval fads, and how they were forgetting important historical lessons.

They were terrific reads; his writing on object-oriented databases was the most fun technical reading I did in grad school. And I even learned a lot!

Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.

It has been a long time, but I think we were reading out of various editions of the Red Book

http://www.redbook.io/

Remember the "degauss" button? I had no idea what it did, but the sound it made sure was satisfying.

https://youtube.com/shorts/R0OhD2Bc6FY

That attempted to demagnetize the components in the CRT that could cause beam deflection and warped colors.

That "component" was the shadow mask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mask.

Because they are doing it for fun?

Me too, but I'd be curious to see what it does with an entire library, as the website suggests. I found the demonstration of the intent to be interesting, regardless.

Ice cream tends not to sell well in winter.

New York City seems to be a counterexample - gelato and ice cream stores everywhere that seem to do decent trade year-round...

Alas, no winter in my locality ever.

~tuturuu~

El psy kongroo

I'm not even Finnish and I came here to post this.

Nim looks a lot like Python with a first-class type system and compiles to many different targets, including wasm and C.