Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev
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    20 days ago

    Currently working on my PhD thesis which is due at the end of the month. I’m cutting it quite close but if everything goes according to plan I should have it all done on time.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      20 days ago

      That’s great! Is it too personal to ask what your PhD is in? I see you have some info on your website, I assume your PhD is not “writing a new programming language” but rather something that your new language pushes the boundries on?

      • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev
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        19 days ago

        Thanks. The type system of the language has some interesting novelty but my key research area is automatic parallelisation of code written in that language.

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          19 days ago

          Ooh interesting, is that something that exists in some form in other languages or is it an entirely new concept?