Richard Barrell's blog

I have a simple theory about why static typing became much less popular in the 2000s to early 2010s and started to get more popular again around the mid to late 2010s.

It's really common and unfortunate to see connection pool classes that hide errors and make debugging connection problems much harder.

Let's say, hypothetically, you're running a small company, you sell software on a B2B basis, and you're just starting to really grow the number of customers you have, and they have questions for you.

Imagine we have a complicated program with a logging framework in it which puts messages on a queue.

Occasionally, I want to record myself playing a videogame.

I accuse that, in most web applications, we're probably going to end up copying the data that we produce about three times.

Given that an x86 doesn't touch memory in anything less than 64-byte increments (since that's the cache line size), and that the slow part of a lock cmpxchg8/16b instruction is acquiring exclusive use of the relevant cache line rather than comparing the c…