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Tristan Isham
Yesterday, I stumbled upon an article on Hacker News, Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count, by Quanta Magazine. The article details the discovery of a new algorithm called CVM for the distinct elements problem.
Tristan Isham
If you’re trying to develop software for people to use, it makes sense to target as many platforms as possible. When I started ZVM, that was one of the major reasons why I chose Go over Zig as its crafting language. That decision has paid off in droves. I have shipped a Windows, MacOS, Solaris, BSD, and Linux binary every release of ZVM, supporting x86, arm64 and more. However, this portability is a double edged sword. When you’re developing a cross-platform application, eventually you’ll run across an operating-system-dependent problem that can’t be abstracted away by the runtime. You’ll need to make syscalls, or change your I.O. operation paths. For me, that problem was symlinks on Windows.
Tristan Isham
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