Concurrency
How Multicore CPUs Killed Object-Oriented Programming
reading time: 35 minutes
OOP’s reference semantics were manageable in single-threaded code. But when CPUs went multicore in 2005, hidden shared state went from ‘confusing’ to ‘catastrophic.’ This is why Go, Rust, and modern languages abandoned default references for value semantics.
Go's Value Philosophy: Part 1 - Why Everything Is a Value, Not an Object
reading time: 32 minutes
In Python, everything is an object. In Java, everything is a class. In Go, everything is a value. These are fundamental design philosophies that shape how you write concurrent code, manage memory, and reason about performance.
The Python Paradox: How Python Dominates Big Data Despite the GIL
reading time: 13 minutes
Discover why Python dominates big data despite the GIL: Python coordinates, C/Rust/JVM executes. Learn how NumPy, pandas, Polars, and PySpark bypass the GIL for true parallelism.