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Techy Tuesdays: The LEAST Private Operating System Ever Created

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Welcome to the Techy Tuesdays segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Techy Tuesdays will feature something in the world of tech, tech news, or tech reviews. Everyone loves the latest in technology, and Techy Tuesdays will talk about all tech!

This is gonna make Rust programmers angry.

Reflection is one of the most powerful concepts in Computer Science. Unfortunately, not every programming language is blessed enough to have it.

In the 1980s, one company, Symbolics took the concept to the logical extreme. By representing EVERYTHING as objects; they created the most powerful (and inadvertently) least private operating system ever created!

The company collapsed, but the ideas live on. Some modern languages got a full dose of reflection. Some…weren’t so lucky. I ranked them all, and in the end I’ll show you how I dragged C++ up a tier with my brand new runtime reflection library, CallMeMaybe!

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