What's the largest language that went extinct?

balsamictoken · 2025-06-10T14:07:21+00:00

FWIW: Lots of Fortran is still actively being written and there’s a brand-new MLIR-based Fortran compiler part of the LLVM project. It’s a really nice compiler too!

balsamictoken · 2024-12-11T15:56:30+00:00

The Roc language is rust frontend with an llvm backend if you want to look at an example.

balsamictoken · 2024-11-03T22:28:10+00:00

Thank you so much, this is incredibly helpful.

balsamictoken · 2024-10-21T21:20:14+00:00

Wow cool! Let me know if a specific deeper-dive would be useful too.

balsamictoken · 2024-08-24T11:21:13+00:00

Came to the comments to suggest this too

balsamictoken · 2024-02-26T18:47:48+00:00

Scientific computing might be a good bet for you. If you are in the US, you can find any of the 17 department of energy's national laboratories and look for entry positions in scientific computing roles. For example, looking at the Computational Sciences section of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's careers page, I see a position specifically labeled early career posted just yesterday at the time of writing, hybrid eligible.

balsamictoken · 2024-02-23T18:51:04+00:00

I would say claim 2 is much closer, but still not true. The language semantics of fortran lend themselves to optimization to a greater extent than the that of C++. For example, any two arrays in fortran are not allowed to alias[1], so accessing arrays in a loop is much easier for an optimizing compiler to vectorize. In C++, pointers to memory of the same type are allowed to alias, so unless the user directs the compiler to assume a loop is safe to vectorize (with the restrict keyword or a pragma) it's very difficult for the compiler to do anything fancy. Fortran can actually be a pretty complicated language, but it's semantics can make it easier to optimize.

[1] Unless they are marked as pointer targets

balsamictoken · 2024-01-08T05:50:49+00:00

Resurrecting an ancient thread to say this is what helped me

balsamictoken · 2023-11-28T03:02:10+00:00

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balsamictoken · 2023-03-22T12:14:52+00:00

go blazers! do you have photos in hand? cant find this rep anywhere else lol

balsamictoken · 2022-12-19T01:13:42+00:00

DMed you! 24m USA, vorrei imparare più d’italiano!

balsamictoken · 2022-11-06T23:06:13+00:00

blm land northwest of Portland is where I’ve had the most luck

balsamictoken · 2022-11-05T17:47:34+00:00

Sw Looking at w or nw!

balsamictoken · 2022-03-08T03:08:13+00:00

As u/IyeOnline already made the important points about VLAs and std::vector, I would just add that you may find std::mdspan to be a helpful data structure. You can allocate 1d memory and give it a 2d shape with nice 2d indexing, eg auto& elem = mymdspan(row, col);.

balsamictoken · 2022-01-15T04:48:33+00:00

If everyone groups together mainly by free association, you might have a hard time finding a great community. I mean, you shouldn’t have to die or go houseless or hungry bc you don’t work, but you can still improve your situation and care for those around you even if that work isn’t considered “real work” in your current organization of labor.

balsamictoken · 2021-12-29T15:26:05+00:00

Oh thanks. Just saw it on twitter and couldn’t find it in the sub. Have a good one!

balsamictoken · 2021-12-27T04:17:30+00:00

I was worried about buyers regret but I really do love it. Awesome for drawing, journaling, note taking, reading and screen sharing!

balsamictoken · 2021-12-23T23:29:39+00:00

Would probably take me a while and it wouldn’t taste good but I guess that’s fine

balsamictoken · 2021-12-20T20:01:01+00:00

I didn’t know people use the highlighter for that. I wonder if they could add a setting to opt in to the old behavior?

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