Fitzcarraldo — or How to Hack Academia to Build Stuff
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Jan Vitek examines the tension in programming language research between advancing formal techniques and actually deploying innovations, arguing that researchers must build and experiment with real systems despite academic incentives and resource gaps versus industry. He discusses the practical burdens of experimenting in complex language ecosystems, frames failure as an expected and valuable part of making impactful work, and describes strategies for navigating academic incentives to produce occasional, meaningful systems.
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