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Start training them from a very young age: competitive coders typical start in secondary/high school or even earlier.

Russia has specialized schools to support this kind of education, so are China and many other countries. Thus, they rank very high in IOI and ICPC contests

I still remember the day when I used jemalloc debug features to triage and resolve some nasty memory bloat issues in our code that use RockDB.

Good times.

The difference is the quality of the OSS implementation: most OSS ASN.1 tool choke on the enormous 3GPP specs and others used in the telco industry, thus cannot generate 100% valid code.

For some use-cases, you can get by with manually adjust the generated code. That works until the hardware vendors release a new device that use a more modern 3GPP specs and your code start breaking again.

When using a commercial ASN.1 tooling, they often update their compilers to support the latest 3GPP specs even before the hardware vendors, and thus supporting a new device is way simpler.

DER is still easy, UPER (unaligned packed encoding rules) is so much harder, yet it's prevalent in Telecom industry. Last I checked, there was no freely available tool than can handle UPER l00%

It's not about the VCS, it's about API compatibility being broken.

If your code is out-of-tree, every time someone changes an API that break your build, it's your responsibility to update your for and fix it.

If your code is mainline, the people who change API and break the compilation are on the hook to fix it.

The use-case is because it's so cheap, why bother with anything less.

Currently, I can get 1Gbps Internet for $15, while the cheapest package is 200Mbps for $5. I expect they'll offer 10Gbps in my area in the next few years for the same cost as the 1Gbps now.

Still, at that speed, the router CPU can actually become the bottleneck, and OpenWRT currently has pretty poor support for hardware accelerated routing.

Ok, so PGLite is used in the Firebase Data Connect's emulator: a test utility, not even the client library.

It's a bit disingenuous to lump it in the same sentence and try to mislead user that Google's adopting Electric.

The problem with handcrafted build system is only the author can effectively maintain it. When he moves on, someone has to spend the time ripping it out and replace with something more standard.

I've been on both end of this situation and would rather not do it again, so I'll use whatever is the de-facto standard, but you do you.

Yes, basically any build system that supports distributed caching use digest instead of timestamp when checking modification: Bazel, Pants, Buck, etc.

They're all hugely complex though.

For local build only, I think SCons and Waf both use hash for changes detection.