Michael and Chris discuss the current state of lower level development, using C and other low level languages as a window into the deepest parts of software development.

Plus your great feedback, and more!

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Show Notes:

Feedback

• Emett wants to know if there is a development or scripting solution to have to repave
  mutiple boxes quickly.
• Stefan is interested in hearing more about desktop development and is working on a panel in Xlib and Python.
• Daniel, is interested in recursion.
• Some passionate reactions to the piracy issues.

PSA RE TOS

• Mike attempts to rescue a Google+ friend from the jaws of GMAIL’s TOS… and fails.

Low Level 101

• What exactly is a low level language?
• Why should I care?
• Where would I find low level languages in use today.

UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!(Sorta)

• Generally, the lower you go the more efficient your code.
• C will have a much faster startup time than higher level languages
• More portable than you might think….
• Higher level languages Java in particular have been inching closer and closer to C / C++ running speed

For All You Snakes Out There

• Python and C better together
• Not to be left out: Ruby

Danger in Deep

• Think before you dive
• Memory management
• Development time++
• GCC / LLVM — make sure you never go it alone
• Proprietary extensions…. Bad for the web — bad for native code

The Horror! The Horror

• Tubsta shares his horror story

Project Update

• Check out the project on Gethub

Book Pick

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Tool of the Week

• Boots Smart Pointers