I think there's a slight difference - RCU involves copying the data structure to update it, but once that's done, there's a single "current" version for all new readers. CoW usually implies that any reader can make their own copy and modify it.

@axionbuster @anduriltech Most credit to @TravisMWhitaker for demonstrating you can actually just ship software instead of making the 537th monad tutorial. And to @theodorvaryag and Julie for a fantastic book.

@effectfully Excel: the world's most popular functional programming language

@HSVSphere I don't always abandon parsing, but when I do, I shit debug strings.

@TemperGame @effectfully Where were you when err was nil?

@shlevy @TravisMWhitaker

@danielfullmer What's a STF?

RT @cmuratori: When I say it's easier to understand assembly language than web "tech", I'm not kidding. Assembly is by its nature simple an…

@scheminglunatic @HSVSphere

@HSVSphere relatime, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

@HSVSphere @adamhearn_ Sweet summer child, you probably weren't using it when the man page for git checkout started with a sentence about "tree-ish[es]".

@HSVSphere @TravisMWhitaker (Barring situations where you absolutely cannot block, like inside an interrupt handler. But bare metal is a whole nother can of worms.)

@TravisMWhitaker True, ButIHateThisExW(lpcstrLolUcs2, NULL, NULL, NULL, &hDeez) (ButIHateThis(&hDeez) was deprecated in Windows 7)

@shlevy @tracewoodgrains

@effectfully Somehow that's also what finally made WHNF click for me. But I could be uniquely damaged.

@lcmedium Don't let Lennart traumatize you like that.