I wonder what some programmers I look up to but haven't heard of for a while have been doing lately? Oh god I hope they haven't drunk the AI kool aid.
*nervous googling*
Wouter van Oortmerssen... has made a new language called Goose. He says:
"Safer, faster and less memory than Rust/C++ for algorithms where tightly packed, flat data structures matter.
It can represent more kinds of data structures as flat, pointer-free bytes than any language I know."
Ok, I'm intrigued.
Kojack 🦎
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