The Overflow #25: New tools for new times
June 2020
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This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, it’s a lust for Rust, ways you can confuse a compiler, and the shifting responsibilities of front-end devs.
From the blog
Why the developers who use Rust love it so much stackoverflow.blog
Here’s why Rust gets so much love, straight from the Rustaceans themselves.
Podcast 241: New tools for new times stackoverflow.blog
This week we’re crafting delicious Textmoji and using machine learning to identify plants and animals in real life.
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Interesting questions
Found a good question or answer? Tweet us with the hashtag #StackOverflowKnows or leave a comment on Facebook. We’ll include our favorites in the future.
Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
There’s only one way out of this function, so don’t try anything funny.
What is it called when several bugs cancel each other out? sqa.stackexchange.com
“Isn’t that just not a bug?”
In practice, why would different compilers compute different values of int x = ++i + ++i stackoverflow.com
Compilers don’t always do math how you’d expect.
How do I inform a company I found a leaked database of theirs on the Internet? security.stackexchange.com
“Don’t give details about what you found until you get someone who will understand it.”
Links from around the web
Case study: Analyzing Notion app performance 3perf.com
This is a really interesting deep dive into analyzing the performance of a popular desktop JavaScript app and a look into optimizations that can be done.
When frontend means full stack increment.com
The responsibilities of front-end developers are shifting more and more these days. Here’s a great read on the subject.
vimwiki/vimwiki: Personal Wiki for Vim github.com
If you’re a die-hard vim user, you might love this vim-driven personal wiki project!
In mathematics, it often takes a good map to find answers www.quantamagazine.org
“A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.” -Stefan Banach
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2 Comments
The int x = ++i + ++i post is only interesting in the sense that it gets asked so often, and that those who ask it (and some of those who answer) seem to have difficulty understanding what undefined behavior is.
Code like this is never actually written in practice, so the many questions that are asked about it are merely hypothetical musings.
I love how this small selection of “interesting questions” highlights at least one question afflicted by the scourge of closing perfectly good questions as duplicates.