Keith Winstein (Stanford) et al's gg [1] is also fun. Sort of `make -j1000` for 10 cents. Create a deterministic-compilation model of a C build task, upload the source files, briefly run a lot of lambdas, download the resulting executable. (Though it's more general than that.)
For folks long despairing that our programming environments have been stuck in a rut for decades, we're about to be hit by both the opportunity to reimagine our compilation tooling, and the need to rewrite the world again (as for phones) for VR/AR. If only programming language and type systems research hadn't been underfunded for decades, we'd be golden.
For folks long despairing that our programming environments have been stuck in a rut for decades, we're about to be hit by both the opportunity to reimagine our compilation tooling, and the need to rewrite the world again (as for phones) for VR/AR. If only programming language and type systems research hadn't been underfunded for decades, we'd be golden.
[1] https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg ; video of talk demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=55m15s ; some slides (page 24): http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/presentations/s2-wo...