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by MuffinFlavored 1298 days ago
anybody got a tl;dw?
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I’ve watched half of it and there was nothing insightful, to be honest.
"I am not interested in these academic issues. I am just a mechanic making a tool." -- I remember he said this already 25 years go.
Some nice historical context for many of the recent developments (e.g. why py3.11 is 30% faster), and other general topics (e.g. why certain languages denote variables using dollar signs).

You can look at the topic-shortcuts on the video timeline to see if any of these topics are of interest to you.

I'd normally just listen to the podcast version, while doing something else. I finished through Lex's interview with John Carmack in several installments.